TTS Pulse Podcast
TTS Pulse Podcast
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🎙️ TTS Pulse Podcasts – Brought to you by the TTS Education Committee, this podcast series delivers the latest insights, innovations, and inspiration from across the transplant world. Tune in for expert interviews, trending topics, educational highlights, and everything you need to know now in transplantation. From the cutting edge to the everyday, TTS Pulse keeps your finger on the pulse of what's happening.
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The podcast focuses on various topics relevant to the transplant community, including disease prevention strategies, clinical advancements, and patient care. Recent episodes have covered critical issues such as Measles Risk Reduction Strategies for transplant patients, exploring clinical features and prevention methods in the context of current epidemiological trends.
🎙️ TTS Pulse Podcasts – Brought to you by the TTS Education Committee, this podcast series delivers the latest insights, innovations, and inspiration from across the transplant world. Tune in for expert interviews, trending topics, educational highlights, and everything you need to know now in transplantation. From the cutting edge to the everyday, TTS Pulse keeps your finger on the pulse of what’s happening.
In this Behind the Paper episode, Macey Levan, Social Media Editor for the Transplantation journals, interviews Robert Rolfe, MD about the key insights from:
📄 **Travel After Transplant: Demographics, Travel Trends, and Vaccination Practices of US Immunocompromised Travelers**
Original Clinical Science—General
Published in *Transplantation* (April 2026)
This study describes the largest reported cohort of immunocompromised post-transplant travelers to date, drawing on data from **17 US clinical sites** collected between **2009 and 2023**. The conversation explores how international travel is evolving among transplant recipients and why pretravel preparation is especially important for this higher-risk population.
The episode highlights:
🔹 How travel patterns differ for immunocompromised post-transplant travelers compared with other travelers
🔹 Why visiting friends and relatives and cruise travel were more commonly reported in this group
🔹 The added complexity of pretravel counseling for transplant recipients
🔹 How immunocompromise influences vaccine decision-making before international travel
🔹 Why understanding travel trends in this population is essential to improving preparation, prevention, and outcomes
This discussion offers an important look at a growing area of transplant medicine, where individualized risk assessment, practical guidance, and preventive care can make travel safer for immunocompromised patients.
📖 Read the full article:
https://journals.lww.com/transplantjournal/abstract/2026/04000/travel_after_transplant__demographics,_travel.28.aspx
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