“…Since the first human lung transplant was performed in 1963, almost 55,000 lung transplantations have been performed worldwide, now with nearly 4600 lung transplantations performed annually [10]. Up to 68% of lung transplant recipients develop AKI, which has been associated with increased one-year mortality, length of hospital stay, higher resource utilization, and related health care burden [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22]. Though survival following lung transplantation has improved over the past few decades, morbidity and mortality related to AKI after lung transplantation and resultant progressive CKD remain relatively high and is a cause for increasing concern [16,23,24,25].…”