Effect of transplantation site and alpha L3T4 treatment on survival of rat, hamster, and rabbit islet xenografts in mice.

abstract：:We developed a multiplex, quantitative, real-time, polymerase chain reaction assay for cytomegalovirus (CMV) and used it to measure the CMV viral load in weekly blood specimens from 43 lung transplant recipients. The median viral load in blood samples immediately preceding bronchoscopy was 1150 copies/microg human DNA...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Sanchez JL,Kruger RM,Paranjothi S,Trulock EP,Lynch JP,Hicks C,Shannon WD,Storch GA

更新日期：2001-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infectious diseases are a major source of morbidity and mortality for immunosuppressed transplant recipients and the antimicrobial chemotherapy can be often less effective in these individuals, because the contribution of underlying host defenses is absent. METHODS:The influence of co-amoxiclav on the funct...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Cuffini AM,Tullio V,Giacchino F,Bonino A,Mandras N,Bianchi N,Roana J,Scalas D,Bonello F,Carlone NA

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The study purpose was to identify risks, benefits and costs associated with an expanded donor protocol. The protocol design evaluated organs rescued using expanded donor criteria and weighed all costs associated with doing so. Costs were measured against conditions experienced with expanded and traditional criteria an...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Jacobbi LM,McBride VA,Etheredge EE,McDonald JC,Cooper ES,Frey D,Boudreaux JP,Gonzalez F,Van Meter C,McMillan R

更新日期：1995-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Urologic complications cause substantial morbidity in the pediatric population after renal transplantation, but their impact on graft survival and transplant costs is poorly understood. In this retrospective review, we evaluated the records of all pediatric renal transplant recipients at our center from 1995...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Englesbe MJ,Lynch RJ,Heidt DG,Thomas SE,Brooks M,Dubay DA,Pelletier SJ,Magee JC

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In adult recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplants (HCT) studied at 1 year after grafting, there was a significant correlation between the counts of T cell receptor excision circle (TREC)-containing CD4 T cells (presumed recent thymic emigrants) and the counts of total T cells (r=0.65, P<0.001). Thus, th...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Storek J,Joseph A,Dawson MA,Douek DC,Storer B,Maloney DG

更新日期：2002-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) withdrawal with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) has not become routine practice, due to concerns about excess acute rejection. Therapeutic drug monitoring may be advantageous when the CNI or MMF is withdrawn. METHODS:This prospective, randomized, concentration-controlled withdr...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Mourer JS,Hartigh Jd,van Zwet EW,Mallat MJ,Dubbeld J,de Fijter JW

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the extent to which pretransplant immunity resulting from natural infection protects against cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease, we analyzed CMV serology on 153 kidney donor and recipient pairs and followed transplant patients to determine incidence and severity of CMV disease. The overall incidence of CMV dis...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Smiley ML,Wlodaver CG,Grossman RA,Barker CF,Perloff LJ,Tustin NB,Starr SE,Plotkin SA,Friedman HM

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of dietary (10% calories) safflower (SAF), evening primrose (EPO), and fish oil (F) as sources of linoleic acid (control), gamma-linolenic acid, and long-chain n-3 fatty acids, respectively, on cardiovascular and renal responses to chronic (5 weeks) cyclosporine administration were studied in male borderli...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Mills DE,Ward RP,McCutcheon D,Dixon H,Ly H,Scholey J

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The first generic tacrolimus product gained Food and Drug Administration approval in August 2009. This prospective, observational trial sought to determine the need for dose titrations and measure drug cost savings on conversion to generic tacrolimus. METHODS:Transplant recipients on stable tacrolimus doses...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： McDevitt-Potter LM,Sadaka B,Tichy EM,Rogers CC,Gabardi S

更新日期：2011-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 151 potential recipients of kidney grafts from one-HLA-haplotype-mismatched MLC-positive (RR greater than 20%) donors treated during 1980-1984 was investigated. The recipients were divided retrospectively into four groups: (A) 42 patients who received pretransplant donor-specific transfusions (DST) and post...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Leivestad T,Albrechtsen D,Flatmark A,Thorsby E

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature is a key parameter in organ preservation that has been consistently linked to primary nonfunction (PNF). In this communication, and for the first time anywhere, continued and direct measurements of human liver intraparenchymal temperatures are reported in six clinical cases of orthotopic liver transplantat...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Villa R,Fondevila C,Erill I,Guimerà A,Bombuy E,Gómez-Suárez C,Sacristán JC,García-Valdecasas JC

更新日期：2006-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet (UV)-irradiated mice were compared with unirradiated mice for their susceptibility to primary and transplanted tumors etiologically unrelated to UV radiation. Although UV-irradiated mice are unable to reject transplants of highly antigenic syngeneic tumors induced by UV light, the growth of syngeneic, non-...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Kripke ML,Thorn RM,Lill PH,Civin CI,Pazmiño NH,Fisher MS

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prophylactic ganciclovir (GCV) is used in high-risk renal transplant patients to prevent acute cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease, but its impact on inflammation within the allograft itself remains undefined. METHODS:To study the effect of GCV prophylaxis on allograft inflammation, murine CMV (MCMV)-infected all...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Shimamura M,Saunders U,Rha B,Guo L,Cassady KA,George JF,Britt WJ

更新日期：2011-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we examined the functional capacity of unseparated, IL-2R positive and IL-2R negative leukocytes infiltrating BN rat hearts or kidneys grafted into allogeneic LEW rats. Upon adoptive transfer into syngeneic LEW recipients, splenocytes or day-3 graft infiltrate cells of either cardiac or renal transplants...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Heidecke CD,Brauer R,Schneider-Eicke J,Schilling T,Wolff S,Diamantstein T

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the present study we examined the effect of the timing of marrow infusion on engraftment in nonmyeloablatively conditioned mice. METHODS:B10 mice were conditioned with decreasing doses of total body irradiation (TBI) and reconstituted with bone marrow cells (BMCs) from major histocompatibility complex-di...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Xu H,Exner BG,Chilton PM,Tanner MK,Mueller YM,Rezzoug F,Ildstad ST

更新日期：2004-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extensive third degree burn wounds can be permanently covered by the transplantation of autologous cultured keratinocytes. Many modifications to Green and colleagues' original technique have been suggested, including the use of a fibrin matrix. However, the properties of the cultured cells must be assessed u...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Ronfard V,Rives JM,Neveux Y,Carsin H,Barrandon Y

更新日期：2000-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed and applied a quantitative competitive polymerase chain reaction method to study the expression of various cytokine genes in Con A-stimulated murine splenocytes. This method relies on the use of competitive templates that differ from the target cytokine cDNA templates only by the introduction of a unique ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Zheng XX,Strom TB,Steele AW

更新日期：1994-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased QT dispersion (QTd), predicting patients with risk of malignant arrhythmia, have recently been reported in hemodialysis patients (HDp). In this prospective study, we aimed to investigate changes in QTd and signal averaged-ECG (SAECG) in HDp after transplantation. Twenty-seven HDp (M/F:18/9, mean age 30+/-8 y...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Yildiz A,Akkaya V,Tükek T,Sahin S,Sever MS,Bozfakioğlu S,Korkut F

更新日期：2001-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Immunosuppression involves the nature of the immunosuppressive agents and individual differences in patient factors. We investigated whether the effect of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) is measurable using an in vitro measure of immunocompetence and related its effects to cyclosporine (CsA) in vitro. METHODS:L...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Ogawa N,Nagashima N,Nakamura M,Shalabi A,Maley WR,Burdick JF

更新日期：2001-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotopic renal allografts following bilateral nephrectomies were placed in 21 healthy mongrel dogs. One group of 11 dogs received cyclosporine (5 mg/kg/24 hr, orally), and 1 group of 10 dogs received cyclosporine and mizoribine (5 mg/kg and 3 mg/kg/24 hr, orally). Body weights, blood cell counts, serum chemistry pr...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Gregory CR,Gourley IM,Cain GR,Broaddus TW,Cowgill LD,Willits NH,Patz JD,Ishizaki G

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoietin (EPO) is widely used among patients with end-stage renal disease awaiting transplantation. Data suggest that EPO therapy may be immunomodulatory. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of pretransplant EPO therapy on renal allograft outcome. We evaluated 120 consecutive renal transplant rec...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Vasquez EM,Pollak R

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Liver transplantation using ABO-incompatible grafts is rarely performed because the reported outcome is poorer than with compatible grafts. We report our positive experience with adult-to-adult living-donor liver transplant (LDLT) using ABO-incompatible grafts. METHODS:The immunosuppressive protocol consist...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Testa G,Vidanovic V,Chejfec G,Gangemi A,Iqpal R,Porubsky M,Pham T,Benedetti E

更新日期：2008-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Blood group-incompatible transplantation is one strategy used when a potential recipient does not have a compatible living donor. Current practice includes desensitization strategies to reduce antibody titers. However, when antibodies are low, in cardiac transplantation in neonates for example, no desensitiz...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Barnett AN,Hudson A,Hadjianastassiou VG,Marks SD,Reid CJ,Maggs TP,Vaughan R,Mamode N

更新日期：2012-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A combined liver and kidney transplantation (CLKT) is advocated for selected individuals with chronic kidney disease undergoing liver transplantation (LT). The aim was to develop a risk score to identify the patients whose estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) would decline during the year post-LT to a...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： O'Riordan A,Donaldson N,Cairns H,Wendon J,O'Grady JG,Heaton N,Hendry BM

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two technical modifications have been suggested for whole-pancreas transplantation with bladder drainage. The duodenal button technique (DB [Madison]) and the duodenal segment technique (DS [Iowa]) are the most commonly performed procedures (1,2). From December 1985 until May 1988 we performed 32 combined pancreas-kid...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： D'Alessandro AM,Sollinger HW,Stratta RJ,Kalayoglu M,Pirsch JD,Belzer FO

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreas transplantation utilizing portal venous and enteric exocrine drainage has potential benefits over the standard systemic venous and bladder exocrine drainage method. Unfortunately, technical difficulties are often experienced with the arterial anastomosis after the portal venous anastomosis is completed. We ha...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Bigam DL,Hemming AW,Sanabria JR,Cattral MS

更新日期：1999-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Serologic evidence of resolved hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection (HBV surface antigen negative, anti-HBV core antibody [HBc] positive) in a liver donor can be regarded as an occult infection with episomal HBV in the liver. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety of anti-HBc-positive living donors. Between...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Hwang S,Moon DB,Lee SG,Park KM,Kim KH,Ahn CS,Lee YJ,Chu CW,Yang HS,Cho SH,Oh KB,Ha TY,Min PC

更新日期：2003-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study was performed to identify risk factors affecting the fate of liver allografts transplanted across the ABO barrier. Over a 5-year period, 30 patients received 31 emergency OLTs with ABO-incompatible allografts. One-year graft and patient survival rates were 37.1% and 48.4%, respectively. This grou...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Lo CM,Shaked A,Busuttil RW

更新日期：1994-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been suggested that T cells primed by processed donor major histocompatibility complex antigen (the "indirect" pathway of allorecognition) may be responsible for mediating chronic allograft rejection. The purpose of this study was to develop a clinically useful assay to study the occurrence of indirec...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Vella JP,Spadafora-Ferreira M,Murphy B,Alexander SI,Harmon W,Carpenter CB,Sayegh MH

更新日期：1997-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prediabetic glucose homeostasis alterations are important cardiovascular risk factors but their role in renal transplant recipients (RTR) has not been established. METHODS:In 172 RTRs without pretransplant or de novo diabetes, we measured carotid intima media thickness (c-IMT) and performed an oral glucose ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Alvarez A,Fernandez J,Porrini E,Delgado P,Pitti S,Vega MJ,González-Posada JM,Rodríguez A,Pérez L,Marrero D,Luis D,Velázquez S,Hernández D,Salido E,Torres A

更新日期：2007-10-15 00:00:00