A peculiar vacuolization in the kidney transplant of a child treated with tacrolimus.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Alagille syndrome (AGS) is an inherited multisystem disorder, and liver transplantation (LT) may be required in pediatric patients with AGS (P-AGS). There are limited data regarding the outcomes of LT in adults with AGS (A-AGS). AIM:To determine and compare the outcomes of LT in A-AGS vs. P-AGS as well as...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Arnon R,Annunziato R,Schiano T,Miloh T,Baisley M,Sogawa H,Contreras AG,Lee S,Kerkar N

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether depressive symptoms predicted survival before and after lung transplantation. We hypothesized that depressive symptoms might predict survival of wait-listed patients, but would not predict survival post-transplant. METHODS:This was a prospective, longitudinal study. Participants complete...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Evon DM,Burker EJ,Galanko JA,Dedert E,Egan TM

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-transplant outcome of kidney allografts depends on various factors, one of which may be the compatibility in volume between graft and recipient. However, previous studies adjusted the graft volume only for recipient's size. As the adjusted graft volume for donor's size would be substituted of nephron number more ...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Han SS,Yang SH,Oh YJ,Cho JY,Moon KC,Ha J,Kim YS

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although FK 506 has been shown to effectively reverse refractory renal allograft rejection, its ability to reverse accelerated renal allograft rejection as a primary agent has not been specifically addressed. Herein evidence of the ability of FK 506 to reverse accelerated renal allograft rejection is presented. A 16-y...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Woodle ES,Newell KA,Haas M,Bartosh S,Josephson MA,Millis JM,Bruce DS,Piper JB,Aronson AJ,Thistlethwaite JR

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our purpose was to determine the complication rate from intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) in a large, multicenter cohort of pediatric heart transplant (PHT) patients. METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed all PHT who underwent IVUS at 5 institutions (2006-2014). Rates of major and minor complications were calcu...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Auerbach SR,Fenton MJ,Grutter G,Albert DC,Di-Filippo S,Burch M,Kuhn MA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLDs) are a heterogeneous set of complications of organ transplantation associated with poor patient prognosis. We analyzed the clinicopathological features of PTLDs in 43 adult and pediatric recipients of solid organ or bone marrow transplantation at a large transplant ...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Yoon SO,Yu E,Cho YM,Suh C,Kim KM,Han DJ,Lee SG,Huh J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abnormal mineral metabolism is not uncommon after renal transplant (TXP). In dialysis patients, elevated serum phosphorous (P), calcium (Ca), CaP product, and parathyroid hormone (PTH) are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The effect of these abnormalities on recipient and graft survival aft...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Egbuna OI,Taylor JG,Bushinsky DA,Zand MS

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To explore the trends in the risk for rejection following heart transplantation (HT) over the past 25 years, and their relation to changes in medical management. METHODS:The study population comprised 216 HT patients. Rejection periods were defined as follows: 0-3 months (early), 3-12 months (intermediate), and 12...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Katz M,Freimark D,Raichlin E,Har-Zahav Y,Arad M,Kassif Y,Peled A,Asher E,Elian D,Kogan A,Shlomo N,Ofek E,Lavee J,Goldenberg I,Peled Y

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subclinical rejection (SCR) is quite common early following renal transplantation and decreases progressively with time. The immunological profile of the recipient, the immunosuppressive regimen used, and the occurrence of prior episodes of clinical acute rejection (AR) are all risk factors for SCR. SCR, in turn, is a...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： El-Amm JM,Gruber SA

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoscopy with histopathological assessment is an established practice to confirm gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease (GI-GVHD). However, the clinical relevance of this approach in children is incompletely evaluated. In a retrospective cohort study, we investigated the frequency of treatment changes in response...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Mårtensson T,Mellgren K,Toporski J,Arvidson J,Szakos A,Casswall TH,Gustafsson B

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From January 2007, we started to perform the tonsillectomy for every patient with recurrent IgA nephropathy (IgAN) after kidney transplantation. Up to September 2008, four recipients with primary IgAN had biopsy-proven recurrent IgAN. They had also progressive hematuria or proteinuria from on the average 14.3 months a...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Ushigome H,Suzuki T,Fujiki M,Nobori S,Sakamoto S,Okamoto M,Urasaki K,Yoshimura N

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infectious disease coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. The impact of COVID-19 on solid organ transplantations, including heart transplantation, is currently unclear. Many transplant programs have been forced to swiftly re-evaluate and adapt th...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Hsu JJ,Al-Saffar F,Ardehali R,Baas AS,Carlson M,Cruz D,Deng M,Fan A,Fraschilla S,Gaynor P,Kamath M,Kubak BM,Schaenman J,Stimpson E,Vucicevic D,Ardehali A,Nsair A

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of kidney transplant recipients die from cardiovascular events. Physical activity may be a modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease following transplant. The goal of our study was to examine adherence to a physical activity intervention following kidney transplant and its impact on metabolic para...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Lorenz EC,Amer H,Dean PG,Stegall MD,Cosio FG,Cheville AL

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Post-transplant gastrointestinal (GI) side effects can impair a patient's quality of life (QoL). This study investigates the improvement in GI side effects and related QoL changes in recipients of liver transplantation (OLT) after converting patients from mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) to enteric-coated mycophe...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Doria C,Ramirez CB,Frank AM,Vaccino S,Fraser N,Marino IR

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver transplant (LT) outcomes are reported to be improving in non-HCV recipients but not for those infected with HCV. Our aim was to evaluate graft survival and predictors of outcome in HCV and non-HCV patients before and after 2003. Patients with primary LT between February 1, 1998, and December 31, 2005, were inclu...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Dickson RC,Pungpapong S,Keaveny AP,Taner CB,Ghabril M,Aranda-Michel J,Satyanarayana R,Bonatti H,Kramer DJ,Nguyen JH

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the general population, obesity is associated with an increased risk of developing hypertension (HTN), type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM), and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Therefore, most transplant centers have a body mass index (BMI) threshold for accepting living kidney donors. But there have been no studies of po...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Issa N,Sánchez OA,Kukla A,Riad SM,Berglund DM,Ibrahim HN,Matas AJ

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) in controlled donation after circulatory death is becoming a popular method due to the favorable results of the grafts procured under this technique. This procedure requires experience, and, sometimes, the availability of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machines to impl...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Pérez Redondo M,Alcántara Carmona S,Fernández Simón I,Villanueva Fernández H,Ortega López A,Pardo Rey C,Duerto Álvarez J,Lipperheide Vallhonrat I,González Romero M,Ballesteros Ortega D,Del Río Gallegos F,Rubio Muñoz JJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The shortage of grafts for kidney transplantation (Tx) has resulted in an expansion of criteria for pediatric donors. However, the limitations of pediatric donors for kidney Tx are not yet clearly established. We investigated the outcomes of recipients with pediatric kidney grafts from Colorado to elucidate ...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Yagisawa T,Kam I,Chan L,Springer JW,Dunn S

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:When a patient who had renal replacement therapy becomes older, an elder donor candidate may be considered as a potential donor for living-related transplantation. Elder donor candidate might have pre-existing disease including mild renal dysfunction, such as proteinuria. Marginally appropriate donors migh...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Akioka K,Okamoto M,Ushigome H,Nobori S,Suzuki T,Sakai K,Sakamoto S,Urasaki K,Yanagisawa A,Fukatsu A,Yoshimura N

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:The aim of this study was to determine whether the expression of CD25, CD28 and CD38 (which reflects the degree of T-cell activation) by peripheral blood mononuclear cells constitutes a useful means of measuring the immune status of liver transplant recipients. METHODS:Fifty-two patients enrolled in a p...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Boleslawski E,BenOthman S,Grabar S,Correia L,Podevin P,Chouzenoux S,Soubrane O,Calmus Y,Conti F

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subclinical acute rejection (SAR) occurs in about 30% of stable renal transplant patients and may be a risk factor for a poor allograft outcome. In the present study, the prevalence and clinical features of subclinical rejection, and the expression of immune activation markers in surveillance graft biopsies were asses...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Veronese FV,Noronha IL,Manfro RC,Edelweiss MI,Goldberg J,Gonçalves LF

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 123 consecutive patients with advanced-stage, acute leukemia undergoing HSCT from HLA-identical sibling donors were analyzed. A G-CSF-primed DLI was planned within day 60 post-transplantation before hematologic relapse was diagnosed. Fifty of the 123 individuals received prophylactic DLI, and 73 individuals...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Wang Y,Liu DH,Fan ZP,Sun J,Wu XJ,Ma X,Xu LP,Liu KY,Liu QF,Wu DP,Huang XJ

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal transplantation remains the definitive treatment for end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The shorter renal vein in right donor nephrectomies is associated with higher incidence of technical failure. We present here our experience with autologous internal jugular vein (IJV) conduits to facilitate living-donor transpl...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Lu T,Yi SG,Bismuth J,Knight RJ,Gaber AO,Bechara CF

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Controlled donation after circulatory death (DCD) remains ethically controversial. The authors developed a controlled DCD protocol in which comfort therapy is regularly used. The aim of this study was to determine whether this policy shortens the DCD donors' life. METHODS:The authors retrospectively analy...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Ledoux D,Delbouille MH,Deroover A,Lambermont B,Meurisse M,Damas P,Joris J,Detry O

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aging of the on-dialysis population raises the issue of whether to propose elderly patients for kidney transplantation and how to manage their immunosuppression. This study aimed to analyze the outcome of kidney transplantation on an Italian series of elderly recipients. We included in this retrospective study all...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Neri F,Furian L,Cavallin F,Ravaioli M,Silvestre C,Donato P,La Manna G,Pinna AD,Rigotti P

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to compare CsA dose monitoring with trough levels (T0) vs. levels obtained 6 h after the morning dose of CsA (T6), with respect to the incidence of acute rejection and renal dysfunction, and the cumulative dose, as well as the cost of CsA after heart transplantation. Twenty consecutive ad...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Cantarovich M,Besner JG,Fitchett DH,Latter DA

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is unclear whether sirolimus, a newer immunosuppressive agent, widely used in renal transplantation, affects male sex hormone levels or sexual function. METHODS:Sex hormone profiles in male renal transplant recipients were obtained and compared between a sirolimus-treated group and a group not on sirolim...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Lee S,Coco M,Greenstein SM,Schechner RS,Tellis VA,Glicklich DG

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the UNOS database from 7/15/00-7/17/05 for Regional deceased donor liver utilization. For each region, we performed logistic regression and derived odds ratios (OR) for donor characteristics associated with livers being transplanted outside of the region or not transplanted at all. Regions with smallest an...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Hayashi PH,Axelrod DA,Galanko J,Salvalaggio PR,Schnitzler M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reducing acute care utilization is a means of improving long-term patient outcomes. We sought to assess high inpatient (IP) admission and standalone emergency department (ED) utilization within a 9-month period post-kidney transplantation and to identify mutable factors to reduce utilization. In this ten-year retrospe...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Weeda ER,Su Z,Taber DJ,Bian J,Morinelli TA,Pilch NA,Mauldin PD,DuBay DA

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes to the United States kidney allocation system targeted at reducing organ discard have failed to improve organ utilization. High Kidney Donor Profile Index kidneys continue to be discarded at high rates as a result of the regulatory and financial barriers to widespread utilization of these organs. However, ther...

journal_title：Clinical transplantation

authors： Stewart ZA,Shah SA,Formica RN,Kandaswamy R,Paramesh AS,Friedman J,Squires R,Cooper M,Axelrod DA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00