Immunoregulatory abnormalities in patients with Epstein-Barr virus-associated B cell lymphoproliferative disorders.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the clinical features of early hepatic artery thrombosis (HAT) are well defined, the features of delayed (more than 4 weeks after transplantation) hepatic artery thrombosis are less clearly defined. The aim of our study was to identify risk factors, clinical presentation, and outcome of management o...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Bhattacharjya S,Gunson BK,Mirza DF,Mayer DA,Buckels JA,McMaster P,Neuberger JM

更新日期：2001-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To confirm the results of a number of studies conducted in Europe, the United States, and Japan, this multicenter, randomized trial compared the 12-month efficacy and safety of tacrolimus- and cyclosporine-based immunosuppressive regimens in the prevention of renal allograft rejection. METHODS:A total of 44...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Mayer AD,Dmitrewski J,Squifflet JP,Besse T,Grabensee B,Klein B,Eigler FW,Heemann U,Pichlmayr R,Behrend M,Vanrenterghem Y,Donck J,van Hooff J,Christiaans M,Morales JM,Andres A,Johnson RW,Short C,Buchholz B,Rehmert N

更新日期：1997-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of protein depletion on immune responsiveness was examined using a skin allograft model. Protein depletion was induced in adult Fischer (F344) male rats by the ad libitum provision of a 5% protein diet. Total serum protein, total body weight, total body nitrogen, and total body lipid were all markedly decre...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Austin EH,Brennan MF,Rosenberg SA

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a canine model of acute ischemic lung injury, a hypertonic citrate solution (HTC) widely used for renal preservation in the United Kingdom, was compared with modified Euro-Collins' solution (ECS) currently the most widely clinically used pulmonary perfusate. Ten beagle dogs underwent left thoracotomy and exclusion ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Hooper TL,Jones MT,Thomson DS,Cook L,Owen S,Wilkes S,Woodcock A,Webster AH,Hasleton P,McGregor CG

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Successful pancreatic islet transplantation (PIT) has resulted in several transplant centers wanting to start PIT programs. PIT remains experimental and must be performed safely for its continued use. We describe the radiographic techniques used at our center and their results. METHODS:Between January 17, 2...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Goss JA,Soltes G,Goodpastor SE,Barth M,Lam R,Brunicardi FC,Froud T,Alejandro R,Ricordi C

更新日期：2003-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to investigate familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy, Portuguese type patients' endocrine cell content in the stomach and duodenum before and after liver transplantation, and to relate the findings to the patients' gastrointestinal disturbances. METHODS:Ten liver-transplanted familia...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Anan I,El-Salhy M,Nyhlin N,Suhr OB

更新日期：2000-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowledge on the reinnervation of transplanted organs is scarce, and the aim of the study was therefore to evaluate to what degree syngeneic pancreas grafts were reinnervated in rats. METHODS:Syngeneic pancreatico-duodenal transplantations were performed in normoglycemic Wistar-Furth rats. Native and transp...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Korsgren O,Jansson L,Ekblad E,Sundler F

更新日期：2001-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytomegalovirus remains a significant source of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised hosts. The increased sensitivity of molecular diagnostic techniques (PCR, antigenemia) has resulted in our ability to detect viral replication earlier in the posttransplant period, before the onset of symptoms. With the advent...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Abecassis MM,Koffron AJ,Kaplan B,Buckingham M,Muldoon JP,Cribbins AJ,Kaufman DB,Fryer JP,Stuart J,Stuart FP

更新日期：1997-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Second-set rejection is generally considered to be mediated by cytotoxic humoral antibodies. A few discordant data have been reported, however. To address this question, we have taken advantage of a model in which specific cytotoxic alloantibodies are not produced although transplantation cellular immunity develops. F...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Aitouche A,Touraine JL

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The efficiency of islet graft survival after intraportal implantation is compromised by host innate immune responses and the production of proinflammatory cytokines that cause acute cellular injury. This reaction activates intraislet nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), causing production of gene products that have de...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Rink JS,McMahon KM,Zhang X,Chen X,Mirkin CA,Thaxton CS,Kaufman DB

更新日期：2013-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interspecies differences create important shortcomings in existing animal models used to describe in vivo events responsible for allograft rejection. Alloimmune destruction of human dermal microvessels, histologically consistent with rejection, has been demonstrated in human skin-grafted severe combined immu...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Lorber MI,Wilson JH,Robert ME,Schechner JS,Kirkiles N,Qian HY,Askenase PW,Tellides G,Pober JS

更新日期：1999-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique of orthotopic renal transplantation in rabbits is described. The technique has been evolved in an experience of over 400 grafts, and difficulties encountered in producing satisfactory anaesthesia and techniques of anastomosis and in obtaining reliable graft function postoperatively have been defined and ov...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Dunn DC

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand in more detail the role of endogenous interleukin 1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra) during bone marrow transplantation, IL-1ra serum levels of 28 patients undergoing allogeneic (n=25) or autologous (n=3) bone marrow transplantation were measured with a commercially available ELISA. In addition, the...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Schwaighofer H,Oberhuber G,Hebart H,Einsele H,Herold M,Nachbaur D,Eibl B,Tilg H,Kropshofer G,Ferrara JL,Niederwieser D

更新日期：1997-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infectious complications occur in approximately 50% of cadaveric liver transplant (CDLT) recipients. Living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is an established alternative to shorten the waiting time. Currently, the incidence of pulmonary infections after LDLT and the microbiologic causes are unknown. In th...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Saner FH,Olde Damink SW,Pavlakovic G,van den Broek MA,Rath PM,Sotiropoulos GC,Radtke A,Canbay A,Paul A,Nadalin S,Malagó M,Broelsch CE

更新日期：2008-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) infection enhances the ability of parental spleen cells to induce graft-vs.-host immunodeficiency (GVHID) in F1 hybrid mice when the two processes occur simultaneously in the recipient. The present study assessed GVHID as the ability of spleen cells to generate in vitro cytotoxic T ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Via CS,Shanley JD,Weatherly BR,Lang P,Shearer GM

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Assays of drug blood levels are used for therapeutic immunosuppressive drug monitoring (pharmacokinetics, PK). We monitored lymphocyte functions (pharmacodynamics, PD) in allograft recipients treated with mycophenolic acid (MPA) to determine its mechanisms and the relationships among dose levels, PK, PD, and...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Gummert JF,Barten MJ,van Gelder T,Billingham ME,Morris RE

更新日期：2000-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ischemia-reperfusion syndrome has been recognized as an important pathogenic factor in renal transplantation, not only in the development of delayed graft function but also in the development of acute and chronic rejection. Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1 activates transcription of several genes implicated ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Lario S,Mendes D,Bescós M,Iñigo P,Campos B,Alvarez R,Alcaraz A,Rivera-Fillat F,Campistol JM

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability to induce tolerance, or at least minimize the need for immunosuppressive therapy, is a high priority in organ transplantation. Accomplishing this goal requires a novel method for determining when a patient has become tolerant to or is rejecting their graft. Here, we sought to develop an efficient...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Lim DG,Park YH,Kim SE,Jung EJ,Jeong SH,Lee H,Shin SJ,Park CS,Han DJ,Kim SC

更新日期：2012-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been demonstrated both in vivo and in vitro that cytomegalovirus regulates not only MHC class I but also class II antigen expression on vascular endothelial cells. The CMV-linked MHC induction is believed to be involved in acute rejection mechanisms and chronic vasculopathy after transplantation. In this study,...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Ustinov JA,Lahtinen TT,Bruggeman CA,Häyry PJ,Lautenschlager IT

更新日期：1994-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As a consequence of its large volume, a microencapsulated islet graft can be implanted only into the peritoneal cavity. The graft volume can be reduced by using small capsules. However, reduction of the diameter of the capsules holds a certain risk, because with smaller capsules, more islets may be found to protrude f...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： De Vos P,De Haan B,Pater J,Van Schilfgaarde R

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We recently demonstrated that inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) ameliorated severe acute lung allograft rejection. This study used a rat lung transplant model to determine (1) the time course and cellular localization of iNOS expression during the histological progression of unmodified acu...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Worrall NK,Boasquevisque CH,Botney MD,Misko TP,Sullivan PM,Ritter JH,Ferguson TB Jr,Patterson GA

更新日期：1997-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The new class of immunosuppressants--inhibitors of the mammalian target of rapamycin--has no nephrotoxicity and the capacity to inhibit vascular smooth cell proliferation. These characteristics may afford considerable clinical advantages in the transplantation of kidneys from expanded criteria donors (ECD). Six clinic...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Rigotti P,Kahan BD

更新日期：2009-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) has been implicated in bone marrow suppression, interstitial pneumonitis, and fatal meningoencephalitis in bone marrow transplant (BMT) recipients. METHODS:We describe the case of a woman with acute myeloid leukemia in second remission who developed febrile meningoencephalitis 8 ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Rieux C,Gautheret-Dejean A,Challine-Lehmann D,Kirch C,Agut H,Vernant JP

更新日期：1998-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The potential risk of transmission of porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERV) from xenogeneic donors into humans has been widely debated. Because we were involved in a phase I/II clinical trial using a bioartificial liver support system (BLSS), we proceeded to evaluate the biosafety of this device. MATERIALS...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Kuddus R,Patzer JF 2nd,Lopez R,Mazariegos GV,Meighen B,Kramer DJ,Rao AS

更新日期：2002-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We sought to determine the risk factors, molecular epidemiology, antibiotic therapy, and outcomes of bacteremia because of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients. METHODS:All episodes of bacteremia occurring in SOT recipients were prospectively doc...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Bodro M,Sabé N,Tubau F,Lladó L,Baliellas C,González-Costello J,Cruzado JM,Carratalà J

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine whether cyclosporine (CsA) has mutagenic potential against human cells, we analyzed sister chromatid exchange (SCE) induction by CsA using human lymphocytes in vitro. SCE frequencies increased significantly in the lymphocytes treated with 1 microgram/ml and 5 micrograms/ml CsA, though the frequencies seemed...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Yuzawa K,Kondo I,Fukao K,Iwasaki Y,Hamaguchi H

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical as well as experimental studies have shown a great interindividual variability in the immunosuppressive efficacy of CsA. Evaluating previous in vitro findings of a correlation between sensitivity of alloresponsiveness to CsA and the HLA-DR phenotype CsA levels were compared in kidney transplant recipients wit...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Zlabinger GJ,Kudlacek S,Pohanka E,Franz M,Hamilton G,Rosenmayr A,Kovarik J

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A role for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in the etiologies of acute and chronic rejection in renal allograft recipients has been suggested. We previously reported that preemptive treatment of CMV infection with ganciclovir in kidney transplant patients was safe and effective. We now present a retrospective analysis ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Akposso K,Rondeau E,Haymann JP,Peraldi MN,Marlin C,Sraer JD

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tacrolimus (FK) and cyclosporine (Cs) are potent immunosuppressants that effectively prevent the rejection of transplanted organs including liver and small intestine. Our study examined the effects of these immunosuppressants on Peyer's patches, which play an important role in mucosal immune response through uptake an...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Fujimura Y,Owen RL

更新日期：2002-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously observed that transplant recipient sera with endothelial antibodies are bound to epidermal cells, as shown by immunofluorescence on sections of skin. It was also reported that early kidney failures that occurred despite negative T cell crossmatches were associated with, and could have been predicted...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Moraes JR,Moraes ME,Luo YM,Stastny P

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00