Rajat Walia, MB,BS

Department

Medicine (Phoenix)

Position

Professor

Publications

• Clinical transplantation
  Biswas Roy Sreeja, etal Bridging the Gap: A Comparative Analysis of Patients Requiring Mechanical Ventilation or ECMO as a Bridge to Lung Transplant Between Eras
  39:10, p. e70337 2025
• Transplantation direct
  Byers Derek E., etal Identification of Surrogate Outcome Biomarkers in Lung Allograft Recipients With Bronchiolitis Obliterans: Implications for Randomized Controlled Trials
  11:10, p. e1857 2025
• Transplantation
  Byers Derek E, etal Characterization of Spirometric Response to Standard-of-care Treatment in Lung Allograft Recipients With Bronchiolitis Obliterans and the Utility of Spirometric Criteria for Rescue Therapy: Implications for the Design of Risk-stratified Clinical Trials 2025
• The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
  Shacker Mark, etal Lung transplant outcomes in recipients of advanced age: Are two always better than one?
  170:2, p. 413 - 422.e5 2025
• The Annals of thoracic surgery
  Shacker Mark, etal Lung Transplantation in the Elderly: Is Age a Contraindication? 2025
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Moin A., etal (1191) - Drowning Donors: Expanding Lung Transplant Possibilities
  44:4, p. S557 - S558 2025
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Walia R., etal (385) - Analyzing Healthcare Costs and Predictors of High Cost in Lung Transplant Recipients with and without Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion Using Linked Data
  44:4, p. S195 - S195 2025
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Sindu D., etal (1622) - Acute Cellular Rejection ≤1 Year After Lung Transplant: Does Recipient Age Impact the Incidence?
  44:4, p. S758 - S759 2025
• Respiratory research
  Pujadas Valentina, etal Alveolar epithelial type 2 cell specific loss of IGFBP2 activates inflammation in COVID-19
  26:1, p. 111 - 13 2025
• Nature genetics
  Vannan Annika, etal Spatial transcriptomics identifies molecular niche dysregulation associated with distal lung remodeling in pulmonary fibrosis
  57:3, p. 647 - 658 2025
• JHLT open
  Sindu Devika, etal Clinical utility of plasma percent donor-derived cell-free DNA for lung allograft surveillance: A real-world single-center experience
  6, p. 100141 2024
• Chest
  Shacker MARK, etal IT'S A MARATHON, NOT A SPRINT: EARLY TRENDS IN LUNG TRANSPLANTATION IN THE CONTINUOUS ALLOCATION SCORE ERA
  166:4, p. A6354 - A6355 2024
• Chest
  Sindu DEVIKA, etal PERFORMANCE OF PLASMA PERCENT DONOR-DERIVED CELL-FREE DNA FOR LUNG ALLOGRAFT SURVEILLANCE >1 YEAR POSTTRANSPLANT: A REAL-WORLD SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE
  166:4, p. A6281 - A6282 2024
• Chest
  Sindu DEVIKA, etal MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF INVASIVE PULMONARY MUCORMYCOSIS IN LUNG TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS: ATTAINING A CURE WITHOUT SURGERY
  166:4, p. A6285 - A6286 2024
• Chest
  Moin ARIBA, etal AIRWAY COMPLICATIONS AFTER LUNG TRANSPLANT AT A HIGH-VOLUME TRANSPLANT CENTER: INSIGHTS INTO CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS, MANAGEMENT, AND PATIENT OUTCOMES
  166:4, p. A6299 - A6300 2024
• Chest
  Braat JONATHAN, etal ENHANCING LUNG TRANSPLANT CANDIDACY: A CASE SERIES ON SUCCESSFUL TAVR PRIOR TO BILATERAL LUNG TRANSPLANTATION
  166:4, p. A6291 - A6292 2024
• Chest
  Moin ARIBA, etal VENOUS GRAFT OCCLUSION IN A PATIENT AFTER CONCOMITANT CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS AND BILATERAL LUNG TRANSPLANTATION
  166:4, p. A6305 - A6306 2024
• Frontiers in transplantation
  Razia Deepika, etal Remdesivir and molnupiravir had comparable efficacy in lung transplant recipients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19: a single center experience
  3, p. 1408289 2024
• Transplant infectious disease
  Martinez Sydni, etal Evaluating the efficacy and safety of letermovir compared to valganciclovir for the prevention of human cytomegalovirus disease in adult lung transplant recipients
  26:3, p. e14279 - n/a 2024
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Sindu D., etal (1019) - Long-Term Survival of Lung Transplant Recipients with Connective Tissue Disease and Esophageal Dysfunction: An 11-Year Single-Center Experience
  43:4, p. S475 - S476 2024
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Sindu D., etal (1020) - Impact of Lung Transplant on DeMeester Score in Patients with Connective Tissue Disease and Gastroesophageal Reflux: An 11-Year Single-Center Experience
  43:4, p. S476 - S477 2024
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Sindu D., etal (1424) - Clinical Implications of Early vs Late Development of Donor-Specific Antibodies After Lung Transplant
  43:4, p. S653 - S654 2024
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Moin A., etal (945) - Outcomes and Risk Factors for Poor Graft Survival in Lung Transplant Recipients with BMI = 35 Kg/m2 - A Single Center Experience
  43:4, p. S444 - S445 2024
• Nature genetics
  Natri Heini M., etal Cell-type-specific and disease-associated expression quantitative trait loci in the human lung
  56:4, p. 595 - 604 2024
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Huddleston S., etal (877) - Thoracic Organ Perfusion (TOP) Registry Annual Report - More Than 350 OCS Lung Transplants in the US
  43:4, p. S415 - S416 2024
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Braat J.P., etal (946) - When to Wait, When to Act: A Single-Center Retrospective Review of Patients with Advanced Lung Disease Deemed 'Too Early' to List for Lung Transplantation
  43:4, p. S445 - S445 2024
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Walia R., etal (895) - Healthcare Costs and Resource Utilization in the 1-Year Preceding Lung Transplantation
  43:4, p. S423 - S423 2024
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Razia D., etal (1423) - Pretransplant Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Did Not Impact Short-Term Survival in Lung Recipients
  43:4, p. S652 - S653 2024
• Transplant international
  Sindu Devika, etal Late-Onset Exudative Pleural Effusions Without Concomitant Airway Obstruction or Lung Parenchymal Abnormalities: A Novel Presentation of Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction
  37, p. 12395 2024
• Clinical transplantation
  Sindu Devika, etal Prior SARS‐CoV‐2 infection may not alter the clinical course of COVID‐19 in lung transplant recipients: A single‐center experience
  37:11, p. e15071 2023
• Chest
  Moin ARIBA, etal OUTCOMES AFTER LUNG REDO-TRANSPLANTATION: A 13-YEAR SINGLE-CENTER EXPERIENCE
  164:4, p. A6455 - A6456 2023
• Chest
  Moin ARIBA, etal MULTIPLE MOLD INFECTIONS IN A LUNG TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT: THE PERSISTING LUNG NODULES
  164:4, p. A6469 - A6469 2023
• Chest
  Sindu DEVIKA, etal HIDDEN EXPLANT CANCERS IN LUNG TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS
  164:4, p. A6464 - A6465 2023
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Gottlieb Jens, etal A randomized controlled trial of presatovir for respiratory syncytial virus after lung transplant
  42:7, p. 908 - 916 2023
• Transplantation direct
  Sindu Devika, etal Pre-exposure Prophylaxis with Tixagevimab-cilgavimab did not Reduce Severity of COVID-19 in Lung Transplant Recipients with Breakthrough Infection
  9:6, p. e1485 2023
• OBM Transplantation
  Razia Deepika, etal Impact of Sex and Age at Lung Transplantation on Long-Term Survival of Patients with Cystic Fibrosis
  7:1, p. 1 - 13 2023
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Sindu D., etal Clinical Outcomes of Lung Transplant Recipients with Covid-19 That Received Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis with Tixagevimab-Cilgavimab: A Single Center Experience
  42:4, p. S311 - S311 2023
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Sindu D., etal Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis with Tixagevimab-Cilgavimab May Not Reduce Covid-19 Severity Among Lung Transplant Recipients That Develop Breakthrough Infection
  42:4, p. S312 - S312 2023
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Sindu D., etal (684) Thoracic Capnocytophaga Infection in a Lung Transplant Recipient
  42:4, p. S303 - S303 2023
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Roy S. Biswas, etal (657) Fighting a Losing Battle From The Start? Disseminated Rhizopus Infection in a Lung Transplant Recipient
  42:4, p. S293 - S293 2023
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Olson M., etal (890) Lung Transplantation for Chronic Beryllium Disease
  42:4, p. S386 - S386 2023
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Loor G., etal (902) Impact of OCS Lung Warm Perfusion Times on Post-Transplant Survival - 'Real-World' Experience from Thoracic Organ Perfusion (TOP) Registry
  42:4, p. S390 - S391 2023
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Olson M., etal (893) Chemoembolization for Hepatocellular Carcinoma as a Bridge to Lung Transplant in a Patient with Advanced Lung Disease
  42:4, p. S387 - S387 2023
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Huddleston S., etal (900) Impact of National OCS Lung Procurement & Management Program on Post-Transplant Survival - Real World Data from the Thoracic Organ Perfusion (TOP) Post-Approval Registry
  42:4, p. S390 - S390 2023
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Loor G., etal (23) First Report of the Organ Care System (OCS) Thoracic Organ Perfusion (TOP) Post-Approval Registry
  42:4, p. S20 - S21 2023
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Razia Deepika, etal Hospitalized patients with irreversible lung injury from COVID-19 have higher morbidity but similar 1-year survival after lung transplant compared to hospitalized patients transplanted for restrictive lung disease
  42:2, p. 255 - 263 2023
• Critical Care
  McNicholas Bairbre A., etal Correction: Epidemiology and outcomes of early-onset AKI in COVID-19-related ARDS in comparison with non-COVID-19-related ARDS: insights from two prospective global cohort studies (Critical Care, (2023), 27, 1, (3), 10.1186/s13054-022-04294-5)
  27:1 2023
• Transplant Immunology
  Bansal Sandhya, etal Immune responses of lung transplant recipients against SARS-CoV-2 and common respiratory coronaviruses: Evidence for pre-existing cross-reactive immunity
  81 2023
• Chest
  Razia DEEPIKA, etal PROLONGED COLONIZATION AND COISOLATION OF SARS-COV-2 IN UNVACCINATED RECIPIENTS OF LUNG TRANSPLANTS
  162:4, p. A2571 - A2572 2022
• Chest
  Razia DEEPIKA, etal LOBAR TORSION FOLLOWING DOUBLE LUNG TRANSPLANTATION: A SURGICAL EMERGENCY
  162:4, p. A2567 - A2568 2022
• Chest
  Lee Janet, etal Cough-Specific Quality of Life Predicts Disease Progression Among Patients With Interstitial Lung Disease
  162:3, p. 603 - 613 2022
• Clinical infectious diseases
  Truong Clover N., etal Universal Lifelong Fungal Prophylaxis and Risk of Coccidioidomycosis in Lung Transplant Recipients Living in an Endemic Area
  74:11, p. 1966 - 1971 2022
• Annals of the American Thoracic Society
  Swaminathan Aparna C., etal Disparities in Lung Transplant among Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis An Analysis of the IPF-PRO Registry
  19:6, p. 981 - 990 2022
• Clinical infectious diseases
  Truong Clover N., etal Untitled Reply
  74:10, p. 1886 - 1887 2022
• Thoracic surgery clinics
  Arjuna Ashwini, etal Management of the Potential Lung Donor
  32:2, p. 143 - 151 2022
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Razia D., etal COVID-19 Has a High Mortality Rate in Lung Transplant Recipients: A Large Single-Center Experience
  41:4, p. S480 - S481 2022
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Meza L.F., etal Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy Presenting as Expressive Aphasia in a Lung Transplant Recipient
  41:4, p. S281 - S281 2022
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Razia D., etal Outcomes of Critically Ill Lung Transplant Recipients with COVID-19
  41:4, p. S392 - S393 2022
• American journal of health-system pharmacy
  Grimes Razelle, etal Outcomes of nontuberculous mycobacteria isolation among lung transplant recipients: A matched case-control with retrospective cohort study
  79:5, p. 338 - 345 2022
• Respiratory research
  de Andrade Joao A., etal Associations between resources and practices of ILD centers and outcomes in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: data from the IPF-PRO Registry
  23:1, p. 3 - 9 2022
• Open forum infectious diseases
  Truong Clover N, etal 980. Universal Lifelong Fungal Prophylaxis and Risk of Coccidioidomycosis in Lung Transplant Recipients Living in an Endemic Area
  8:Supplement_1, p. S581 - S581 2021
• Journal of thoracic disease
  Arjuna Ashwini, etal Current trends in candidate selection, contraindications, and indications for lung transplantation
  13:11, p. 6514 - 6527 2021
• Chest
  Olson MICHAEL, etal KAPOSI SARCOMA IN A LUNG TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT: A CASE REPORT
  160:4, p. A2463 - A2463 2021
• Chest
  Olson MICHAEL, etal STAGE III ADENOCARCINOMA IN THE PNEUMONECTOMY SPECIMEN AT TIME OF LUNG TRANSPLANT RESULTING IN POSTTRANSPLANT METASTASIS DESPITE EXPLANTATION
  160:4, p. A2465 - A2465 2021
• Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.)
  Olson Michael T., etal Inpatient Lung Transplant Evaluation Is Associated With Increased Risk of Morbidity, Mortality, and Cost of Care After Transplant
  31:3, p. 219 - 227 2021
• Journal of the American College of Surgeons
  Dameworth Jonathan L., etal Colorectal Cancer Prevention in Lung Transplant Recipients: The Need for an Enhanced Surveillance Protocol
  232:5, p. 717 - 725 2021
• Transplant infectious disease
  Goodlet Kellie J., etal COVID-19 in a lung transplant recipient: Exploring the diagnostic role of circulating exosomes and the clinical impact of advanced immunosuppression
  23:2, p. e13480 - n/a 2021
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Olson M.T., etal Two Cases of Spontaneous Bleeding in Lung Transplant Recipients Treated with Systemic Anticoagulation for COVID-19
  40:4, p. S502 - S502 2021
• Transplant infectious disease
  Goodlet Kellie J., etal Nocardia prophylaxis, treatment, and outcomes of infection in lung transplant recipients: A matched case‐control study
  23:2, p. e13478 - n/a 2021
• Multidisciplinary respiratory medicine
  Hunt Jessica, etal Efficacy of low-dose valganciclovir in CMV R plus lung transplant recipients: a retrospective comparative analysis
  16 2021
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Sharma Monal, etal Circulating exosomes with lung self-antigens as a biomarker for chronic lung allograft dysfunction: A retrospective analysis
  39:11, p. 1210 - 1219 2020
• Chest
  Olson Michael, etal OUTCOMES OF LUNG TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS 75 YEARS AND OLDER: A SINGLE-CENTER EXPERIENCE
  158:4, p. A2394 - A2394 2020
• Chest
  Arjuna Ashwini, etal MANAGEMENT OF PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS IN LUNG TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS: A SINGLE-CENTER EXPERIENCE
  158:4, p. A2395 - A2396 2020
• Chest
  Arjuna Ashwini, etal DIAPHRAGMATIC HEMIPARALYSIS AS A RARE CONSEQUENCE OF HIGH THORACIC EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA IN LUNG TRANSPLANTATION: A CASE REPORT
  158:4, p. A2380 - A2381 2020
• Current fungal infection reports
  Goodlet Kellie J., etal Updates in the Treatment of Breakthrough Mold Infections
  14:2, p. 153 - 165 2020
• Chest
  O’Brien Emily C., etal Disease Severity and Quality of Life in Patients With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
  157:5, p. 1188 - 1198 2020
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Van Raemdonck Dirk, etal Donation after circulatory death in lung transplantation—five-year follow-up from ISHLT Registry
  38:12, p. 1235 - 1245 2019
• Chest
  Roy Sreeja Biswas, etal MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS CAUSING DISSEMINATED SKIN INFECTION IN A LUNG TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT
  156:4, p. A1387 - A1388 2019
• Chest
  Roy Sreeja Biswas, etal INCIDENTAL PULMONARY ADENOCARCINOMA DETECTED ONLY IN ONE EXPLANTED LYMPH NODE OF A LUNG TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT WITH OLIGO-METASTATIC RECURRENCE ONE YEAR AFTER TRANSPLANT
  156:4, p. A1534 - A1535 2019
• Journal of cystic fibrosis
  Goodlet Kellie J, etal Successful Lung Re-transplant in a Patient with Cepacia Syndrome due to Burkholderia ambifaria
  18:1, p. e1 - e4 2019
• Journal of thoracic disease
  Panchabhai Tanmay S., etal Electromagnetic navigational bronchoscopy for diagnosing peripheral lung lesions in lung transplant recipients: a single-center experience
  10:8, p. S108 - S114 2018
• Multidisciplinary respiratory medicine
  Mortensen Amber, etal Effect of pirfenidone on wound healing in lung transplant patients
  13:1, p. 16 - 5 2018
• Chest
  Chaddha Udit, etal A 47-Year-Old Man With Fever, Dry Cough, and a Lung Mass After Redo Lung Transplantation
  153:6, p. E147 - E152 2018
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Gottlieb J., etal (372) - A Phase 2b Randomized Controlled Trial of Presatovir, an Oral RSV Fusion Inhibitor, for the Treatment of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in Lung Transplant (LT) Recipients
  37:4, p. S155 - S155 2018
• Transplantation direct
  Banks Paul N., etal Tacrolimus-Induced Hyponatremia in Lung Transplant Recipients: A Case Series
  4:4, p. e359 - e359 2018
• Journal of thoracic disease
  Gemma Vincent, etal Pneumatosis intestinalis in solid organ transplant recipients
  10:3, p. 1984 - 1997 2018
• Respiratory medicine case reports
  Patil Pradnya D., etal Incidental extensive adenocarcinoma in lungs explanted from a transplant recipient with an idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis flare-up: A clinical dilemma
  25, p. 45 - 48 2018
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Van Raemdonck Dirk, etal Report of the ISHLT Working Group on primary lung graft dysfunction Part IV: Prevention and treatment: A 2016 Consensus Group statement of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
  36:10, p. 1121 - 1136 2017
• Journal of bronchology & interventional pulmonology
  Chaddha Udit, etal The Imitation Game: A 55-Year-OldMan With a Lung and Adrenal Mass
  24:4, p. E52 - E54 2017
• Chest
  Chaddha Udit, etal A 58-Year-Old Man With Fatigue, Weight Loss, and Diffuse Miliary Pulmonary Opacities
  151:6, p. e131 - e134 2017
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Gunasekaran M., etal (326) - Antibodies to Human Leukocyte Antigen Class I and Lung Associated Self-Antigens, K-alpha-1 Tubulin and Collagen V Induces Exosomes Containing Self-Antigens from Human Primary Airway Epithelial and Endothelial Cells
  36:4, p. S130 - S131 2017
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Nayak D., etal Repertoire Analysis of De Novo Non-HLA Antibodies Associated with Chronic Lung Allograft Rejection Following Human Lung Transplantation
  36:4, p. S159 - S160 2017
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Mortensen A., etal (833) - Lung Transplantation on Pirfenidone: A Single Center Experience
  35:4, p. S302 - S302 2016
• Case reports in transplantation
  Tokman Sofya, etal Lung Transplant Recipient with Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
  2016, p. 1 - 4 2016
• The Annals of thoracic surgery
  Biswas Roy Sreeja, etal Is There an Age Limit to Lung Transplantation?
  100:2, p. 443 - 451 2015
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Ibrahim S., etal Lung Transplantation Outcomes in “Older” Patients: Risk vs. Benefit?
  32:4, p. S269 - S270 2013
• The Annals of thoracic surgery
  Jacobs Jordan V., etal Hardware Preservation After Sternal Wound Infection in a Lung Transplant Recipient
  92:2, p. 718 - 720 2011
• The Journal of heart and lung transplantation
  Weinkauf Justin, etal Lymphocytic Myocarditis After Lung Transplantation
  24:8, p. 1163 - 1165 2005
• Chest
  Monroe Alan T, etal Tracheobronchial amyloidosis: a case report of successful treatment with external beam radiation therapy
  125:2, p. 784 - 789 2004