“…In 2015, the HT group of our Transplant Unit reported on our experience with three cases of combined simultaneous kidney transplant and heart re-transplant, showing the feasibility and safety of this procedure [5]. Nonetheless, in that series as well as in other previous reports on HKT [2,3], several ischemia-related complications of the kidney grafts were noted, comprising delayed graft function (DGF), long-term dysfunction, graft rejection, and ureteral ischemia. Following that preliminary experience and thanks to technology advances, we have consequently implemented our surgical management of HKT with the use of an hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) for the kidney graft, switching from a simultaneous HKT to a staged procedure.…”