Special Issue

HLA in Transplantation: Typing, Matching and Outcomes

Submission Deadline: July 30, 2025 (Open) Submit Now

Guest Editors

Vikash Mishra , PhD, Scientist

Chimera Transplant Research Foundation, New Delhi, India

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Research Interests: Human leukocyte Antigen (HLA); Histocompatibility tissue testing; Solid organ transplant; Hematopoietic stem cell transplant; Matched unrelated donor hematopoietic stem cell transplant; Stem cell registry; STR; Mitochondrial DNA analysis; Autosomal STR Analysis and Y STR DNA Analysis; CDC crossmatch; Anti HLA antibodies

Muhammad Mujtaba, MD, FASN, FAST

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Texas, USA

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Research Interests: pancreas transplantation; kidney transplantation; transplant surgery; organ donation; transplant immunology

Dr. Abbas Ghazanfar, Consultant Transplant Surgeon

Renal Transplant Unit, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Blackshaw Road, Tooting, London SW17 0QT, UK

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Research Interests: Live donor renal transplantation; Renal Transplant in complex recipients i.e. high BMI, multiple transplants and complex anatomy; Dual Kidney transplant; Vascular access in patients with chronic kidney disease

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted through the LIDSEN Submission System. Detailed information on manuscript preparation and submission is available in the Instructions for Authors. All submitted articles will be thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process and will be processed following the Editorial Process and Quality Control policy. Upon acceptance, the article will be immediately published in a regular issue of the journal and will be listed together on the special issue website, with a label that the article belongs to the Special Issue. LIDSEN distributes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License in an open-access model. The authors own the copyright to the article, and the article can be free to access, distribute, and reuse provided that the original work is correctly cited.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). Research articles and review articles are highly invited. Authors are encouraged to send the tentative title and abstract of the planned paper to the Editorial Office (transplantation@lidsen.com) for record. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office.

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Publication

Open Access Review Risk Assessment in Clinical Histocompatibility Testing: Challenges, Strategies, and Future Directions by Vikash Chandra Mishra  , Dinesh Chandra  and Vimarsh Raina Received: 15 July 2025;  Published: 25 November 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.transplant.2504260 Abstract Though the role of clinical histocompatibility testing is fundamental to successful transplant, systematic risk assessment and mitigation strategies remain underutilised in this domain. This review addresses risk identification, analysis, and control measures across the pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical phases of clinical histoco [...]

Open Access Communication Calculated Human Leucocyte Antigens Evolutionary Divergence (cHED) by Bruno A Lima Received: 15 December 2023;  Published: 11 March 2024;  doi: 10.21926/obm.transplant.2401208 Abstract Human Leucocyte Antigens (HLA) constitute a highly polymorphic set of genes pivotal to the immune response. The HLA heterozygous advantage hypothesis assumes that heterozygous individuals at the HLA level have a wider range of peptides for T cell recognition than homozygous individuals. Consequently, they possess an enhanced capacity to trigge [...]