Tumor necrosis factor-beta is associated with thymic apoptosis during acute rejection.

abstract：BACKGROUND:While previous surveys have demonstrated the psychological impact on living-related liver transplantation (LRLT) donors, such as anxiety, depression, ambivalence and anger, the details regarding the relevant factors that affect donors' psychological status have not been well described. METHODS:To evaluate e...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Hayashi A,Noma S,Uehara M,Kuwabara H,Tanaka S,Furuno Y,Hayashi T

更新日期：2007-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Mandatory continuous monitoring of early transplant outcome with centralized oversight was introduced in 2004 for all 23 UK adult kidney transplant units. Risk-adjusted cumulative sum charts are used to assess 30-day graft and patient survival against past performance for each center, and change in transplant center p...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Collett D,Sibanda N,Pioli S,Bradley JA,Rudge C

更新日期：2009-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Biliary tract problems remain an important cause of complication following orthotopic hepatic transplantation. We describe 12 liver transplantation patients who developed bile peritonitis secondary to a biliary leak after T tube removal. Each of these patients underwent an urgent ERCP that exhibited leakage outside th...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Ostroff JW,Roberts JP,Gordon RL,Ring EJ,Ascher NL

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about innate lymphoid cell (ILC) populations in the human gut, and the turnover of these cells and their subsets after transplantation has not been described. METHODS:Intestinal samples were taken from 4 isolated intestine and 3 multivisceral transplant recipients at the time of any operativ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Weiner J,Zuber J,Shonts B,Yang S,Fu J,Martinez M,Farber DL,Kato T,Sykes M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with Fanconi's anemia treated for 5 years with oxymetholone developed hepatic function abnormalities in association with hepatic tumors demonstrated by isotope liver-spleen scan or abdominal echogram. The lesions resolved over a period of 26 months after allogeneic marrow transplantation, and the patients...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Schmidt E,Deeg HJ,Storb R

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic renal allograft failure remains a major challenge to overcome. Factors such as donor quality, delayed graft function (DGF), acute rejection, and immunosuppression are known to affect long-term outcome, but their relationship to histological damage to graft outcome is unclear. METHODS:Protocol kidney...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Nankivell BJ,Fenton-Lee CA,Kuypers DR,Cheung E,Allen RD,O'Connell PJ,Chapman JR

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Agarose is known to inhibit nonspecifically the cytotoxic effects of normal sera on xenogeneic lymphoid cells. To find an explanation for this agarose effect we have studied its requirements using guinea pig and human sera as the source of activity and rat thymocytes as target cells. Control assays were performed usin...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Budzko DB,Kierszenbaum F

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Uterus transplantation is a treatment for absolute uterine infertility and can be performed with living and deceased donors. Given the safety and increased utilization of robotic assistance with other gynecologic and transplant donor operations, we adopted a robot-assisted approach to donor hysterectomy. Thi...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Johannesson L,Koon EC,Bayer J,McKenna GJ,Wall A,Fernandez H,Martinez EJ,Gupta A,Ruiz R,Onaca N,Testa G

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Isolated transient elevation of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) in the absence of bone or liver disease has been reported in children including liver transplant patients. Specific isoenzyme patterns have been associated with this phenomenon in healthy children but have not been reported after liver transplantatio...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： O'Riordan S,Baker AJ,Sherwood RA

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The applicability of laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (LDN) has not been assessed in the obese donor. We hypothesized that obesity is not a technical contraindication to LDN. From May 1998 to February 1999, 40 patients underwent LDN at the Georgetown Transplant Institute with the transperitoneal technique. Prophylaxis a...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Kuo PC,Plotkin JS,Stevens S,Cribbs A,Johnson LB

更新日期：2000-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim was to compare efficacy of multiple daily injections (MDI), continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) and islet transplantation to reduce hypoglycemia and glycemic variability in type 1 diabetes subjects with severe hypoglycemia. METHODS:This was a within-subject, paired comparison of MDI and ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Holmes-Walker DJ,Gunton JE,Hawthorne W,Payk M,Anderson P,Donath S,Loudovaris T,Ward GM,Kay TW,OʼConnell PJ

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with long-term functioning organ allografts may have developed different mechanisms that explain the lack of graft rejection. However, it is not known how these mechanisms interplay or whether one of them predominates in such situations. METHODS:The authors analyzed the expression of T-cell surface...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Alvarez CM,Paris SC,Arango L,Arbelaez M,Garcia LF,RAD B201 study group.

更新日期：2004-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decade there have been major advances in all aspects of liver transplantation with the consequence that the number of patients who could benefit from the procedure is increasing. As a result, the number of patients listed for liver transplantation is growing while the donor pool is remaining constant or ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Neuberger J,Ubel PA

更新日期：2000-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute graft dysfunction caused by ischemia-reperfusion injury is recognized as a major source of morbidity and mortality following adult heart transplantation. The aim of this study was to determine whether treating the donor and recipient with cariporide, an inhibitor of the sodium-hydrogen exchanger, could...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Ryan JB,Hicks M,Cropper JR,Garlick SR,Kesteven SH,Wilson MK,Feneley MP,Macdonald PS

更新日期：2003-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Class I molecules of the MHC affect target cell sensitivity to NK cell repertoire. In the mouse, absence of MHC class I molecules on target cells is associated with an increased susceptibility to NK cell-mediated lysis, while syngeneic class I molecules confer protection. In contrast to the protective role of syngenei...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Salcedo M,Höglund P,Ljunggren HG

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Airway complications continue to be an important source of morbidity and mortality after lung transplantation (LTx). Different approaches have been used for their nonsurgical management. We describe our experience using self-expandable metallic stents (SEMSs) in patients with airway complications post-LTx. ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Saad CP,Ghamande SA,Minai OA,Murthy S,Pettersson G,DeCamp M,Mehta AC

更新日期：2003-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Transplantation provides life-saving therapy to critically ill patients with end-stage organ failure. We found that the specialized knowledge of mental health clinicians and physicians, committed to the evaluation and management of transplant recipients, is essential for the optimal care of these patients who require ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Surman OS,Cosimi AB,DiMartini A

更新日期：2009-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Living donor renal allograft survival is superior to that achieved from deceased donors, although graft outcome is suboptimal in some of these patients. In an effort to identify the subset of patients at high risk for poor outcomes we studied donor risk factors in 248 living kidney donor-recipient pairs. Unadjusted do...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Issa N,Stephany B,Fatica R,Nurko S,Krishnamurthi V,Goldfarb DA,Braun WE,Dennis VW,Heeger PS,Poggio ED

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Liver endothelial cells (LECs) perform an essential role in important pathophysiologic functions in the liver. Establishment of a human LEC line facilitates advances in LEC research. Here, we present immortalization of human LECs using retroviral gene transfer of simian virus 40 large T antigen (SV4...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Matsumura T,Takesue M,Westerman KA,Okitsu T,Sakaguchi M,Fukazawa T,Totsugawa T,Noguchi H,Yamamoto S,Stolz DB,Tanaka N,Leboulch P,Kobayashi N

更新日期：2004-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients awaiting a renal transplant were given 1 HLA-DR antigen-matched blood in order to compare the sensitization and graft outcome of these patients with those of control patients, who had been given random blood before transplantation. No differences in sensitization, measured by the formation of HLA antibodies, ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Middleton D,Martin J,Douglas J,McClelland M

更新日期：1994-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients who require cystectomy are usually treated with an ileal conduit or intestinal neobladder for urinary control. In some of them, however, the bowel segment cannot be used because of previous abdominal surgery or radiation treatment. Bladder transplantation from cadavers may be beneficial to these patients, if ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Takeuchi K,Takechi S,Ohoka H,Yokoyama M,Iwata H,Takeuchi M,Matsuda S

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the success rate of solitary pancreas transplantation in type 1 diabetes with preserved kidney function has greatly improved in recent years, a residual proportion of failures persists. METHODS:With the aim of investigating autoimmunity as an unrecognized cause of graft failure, we measured autoanti...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Occhipinti M,Lampasona V,Vistoli F,Bazzigaluppi E,Scavini M,Boggi U,Marchetti P,Bosi E

更新日期：2011-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rat lung allograft rejection is mediated by collagen type V (col(V)) specific T-helper-cell 17 (Th17) cells. Adoptive transfer of these cells is sufficient to induce rejection pathology in isografts, whereas tolerance to col(V) suppresses allograft rejection. Therefore, we tested whether regulatory T cells f...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Braun RK,Molitor-Dart M,Wigfield C,Xiang Z,Fain SB,Jankowska-Gan E,Seroogy CM,Burlingham WJ,Wilkes DS,Brand DD,Torrealba J,Love RB

更新日期：2009-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study evaluated zoom endoscopic findings according to four components in comparison with the histologic findings of acute cellular rejection (ACR) in a living-related small bowel transplantation (SBTx) patient. METHODS:A 16-year-old boy with microvillus inclusion disease underwent SBTx with a 150-cm-lo...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Sasaki T,Hasegawa T,Nakai H,Kimura T,Okada A,Musiake S,Doi R

更新日期：2002-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The shortage of livers for transplantation has prompted transplant centers to seek alternatives to conventional cadaveric liver transplantation. Left lateral segmentectomy from living donors has proven to be a safe operation for the donor with excellent results in the pediatric population. Left lobectomy, co...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Marcos A,Fisher RA,Ham JM,Shiffman ML,Sanyal AJ,Luketic VA,Sterling RK,Posner MP

更新日期：1999-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Circulation of leukocytes via blood, tissue and lymph is integral to adaptive immunity. Afferent lymphatics form CCL21 gradients to guide dendritic cells and T cells to lymphatics and then to draining lymph nodes (dLN). Vascular endothelial growth factor C and vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 3 (V...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Iwami D,Brinkman CC,Bromberg JS

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotopic abdominal rat heart transplantation has been extensively used to investigate ischemic-reperfusion injury, immunological consequences during heart transplantations and also to study remodeling of the myocardium due to volume unloading. We provide a unique review on the latter and present a summary of the ex...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Benke K,Sayour AA,Mátyás C,Ágg B,Németh BT,Oláh A,Ruppert M,Hartyánszky I,Szabolcs Z,Radovits T,Merkely B,Szabó G

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brainstem death is associated with endocrine and metabolic alterations that can result in donor hemodynamic instability. It has been suggested that these changes can be reversed through hormonal manipulation of the donor. We measured thyroid hormone levels (free triiodothyronine [fT3], free tetraiodothyronine [fT4], r...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Karayalçin K,Umaña JP,Harrison JD,Buckels JA,McMaster P,Mayer AD

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As donation after cardiac death practices expand, the number of institutional policies is increasing. We contacted organ procurement organizations throughout the United States and requested protocols in hospitals in their donor service areas. Sixty-four protocols were obtained with representation from 16 different sta...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Fugate JE,Stadtler M,Rabinstein AA,Wijdicks EF

更新日期：2011-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:When normal mice are exposed for short periods to ultraviolet light (UV), they support the progressive growth of transplanted syngeneic UV-induced tumors. Normal nonirradiated mice almost always reject these tumor implants. The UV-mediated suppression of the antitumor response can be adoptively transferred to normal s...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Spellman CW,Daynes RA

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00