Reimbursement for living kidney donor follow-up care: how often does donor insurance pay?

abstract：BACKGROUND:Donation after cardiac death (DCD) increases the number of donor kidneys but is associated with more primary nonfunction (PNF) and delayed graft function (DGF). It has been suggested that biomarkers in the preservation solution of machine perfused kidneys may predict PNF, although evidence is lacking. METHO...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Hoogland ER,de Vries EE,Christiaans MH,Winkens B,Snoeijs MG,van Heurn LW

更新日期：2013-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Extrinsic denervation and lymphatic disruption impair nutrient absorption after small bowel transplantation. The present study was undertaken to determine whether adding the ileocecal valve with or without the ascending colon would improve the function of a segmental intestinal graft. Five groups of Lewis rats (n = 10...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Black RT,Hashimoto T,Zhong RZ,Behme RJ,Garcia BM,Duff JH,Grant DR

更新日期：1994-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the graft-versus-host reaction in response to minor histocompatibility antigens on the antibody response to a T-dependent antigen was studied in four strains of mice. Lethally irradiated mice were transplanted with bone marrow plus graded numbers of spleen cells from H-2-compatible donors. Recipients of ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Hamilton BL,Ochs HD

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-term survival and functions of encapsulated islet grafts need to be evaluated in the absence of immunosuppression. The present study aimed to assess the viability and functions of macroencapsulated islets grafted in nonhuman primates without immunosuppression for 1 year. METHODS:Islet transplantations ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Sasikala M,Rao GV,Vijayalakshmi V,Pradeep R,Pothani S,Kumar PP,Gaddipati R,Sirisha G,Cheemalakonda R,Tandan M,Subramanyam C,Vasudevan S,Reddy DN

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Solitary pancreas transplants, both pancreas transplant alone (PTA) and pancreas after kidney (PAK), have higher rejection rates and lower graft survivals than simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplants (SPK). The aim of this study is to compare three different antibody induction regimens in solitary pancreas ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Stegall MD,Kim DY,Prieto M,Cohen AJ,Griffin MD,Schwab TR,Nyberg SL,Velosa JA,Gloor JM,Innocenti F,Bohorquez H,Dean PG,Carpenter HA,Leontovich ON,Sterioff S,Larson TS

更新日期：2001-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preoperative mapping of the hepatic venous system of the partial liver graft is indispensable to the success of living-related liver transplantation. We assessed the accuracy of magnetic resonance (MR) venography with angular reconstruction in depicting the tributaries of the middle hepatic vein and left hep...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Cheng YF,Chen CL,Huang TL,Chen TY,Lee TY,Chen YS,Wang CC,de Villa V,Goto S,Chiang YC,Eng HL,Jawan B,Cheung HK

更新日期：1999-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Humanized Fc receptor (FcR)-nonbinding antibodies against CD3 are promising immunosuppressive agents that may overcome both the neutralizing response to and the cytokine release syndrome seen with conventional monoclonal antibodies against CD3. In addition, evidence from several murine models suggests that t...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Chau LA,Tso JY,Melrose J,Madrenas J

更新日期：2001-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have reported the development of antiidiotypic antibodies to anti-HLA alloantibodies in renal allograft transplant recipients, postulating their potential beneficial role in allograft survival. In order to evaluate the role of anti-HLA antiidiotypic antibodies in human liver transplant recipients and t...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Chauhan B,Phelan DL,Marsh JW,Mohanakumar T

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gastrointestinal complications are common in patients who undergo kidney transplantation and may affect posttransplant outcomes. We examined the incidence and predictors of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and dyspepsia and their associations with graft survival and mortality after transplant. METHODS...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Neri L,Rocca Rey LA,Pinsky BW,Lentine KL,Salvalaggio PR,Machnicki G,Willoughby L,Burroughs TE,Takemoto SK,Schnitzler MA

更新日期：2008-02-15 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：:The carbohydrate antigens, blood groups A and B, and the alpha-gal epitope (Galalpha1-3Gal) are major risk factors in transplantation. Transplantation across ABO barriers may result in rejection by elicited anti-blood group antibodies, accommodation where elicited anti-blood group antibodies do not reject the graft, o...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Galili U

更新日期：2004-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recurrent hepatitis C virus (HCV) after liver transplantation (OLT) is a major cause of graft loss in HCV-positive patients. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy and safety of pegylated interferon alfa-2b (peginterferon) and ribavirin treatment for recurrent HCV after OLT and analyzed the influence of an...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Neumann U,Puhl G,Bahra M,Berg T,Langrehr JM,Neuhaus R,Neuhaus P

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the significant improvements that have occurred since the introduction of CsA, long-term renal allograft survival continues to be an area of concern. Management strategies that involve the use of sirolimus offer some promise. A number of observations suggest that sirolimus may have the ability to reduce the ra...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Kahan BD

更新日期：2001-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Allotransplantation into immunosuppressed individuals results in long-term survival of grafts. However, the grafts are damaged, probably at many stages before, during and after implantation. The hypothesis to be presented is that release of antigens and autoantigens from the chronically damaged graft results in breaki...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Rose ML

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-encoded antigens (RT1) on endothelium of rat kidneys was investigated using hyperimmune allogeneic rat sera (HIS) in an indirect immunofluorescence technique with kidney sections. Endothelial antigens detected with anti-MHC sera segregated in an F2 generation with...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Paul LC,Paradysz JM,Milford EL,Kunz HW,Carpenter CB

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal transplant is an established treatment of irreversible intestinal failure, unless complicated by advanced intestinal failure-associated liver disease, when liver-bowel transplant may be necessary. Finding at least moderate hepatic fibrosis or gastroesophageal varices (GOV) at oesophago-gastroduodenoscopy (O...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： McKiernan PJ,Sharif K,Gupte GL

更新日期：2008-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve long-term outcome after renal transplantation, attention should be placed on the tailored use of immunosuppressive regimens that have a more favorable impact on the immunological and nonimmunological risk profiles of an individual recipient. Tacrolimus is widely used for maintenance and rejection immunosupp...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： First MR

更新日期：2001-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Preformed recipient HLA-specific antibodies can cause hyperacute rejection of a transplanted kidney if they are directed against mismatched donor HLA antigens. To avoid hyperacute rejection it is essential that recipient antibodies be identified during patient workup for transplantation and HLA antigens to which a pat...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Martin S

更新日期：2001-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated that DA hearts grafted into PVG rats were completely protected from rejection by simultaneous liver transplantation from the same donor. In subsequent experiments PVG animals were given DA hearts followed 5 or 6 days later by livers from the same donor strain. Instead of the expected rapid rejecti...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Kamada N,Wight DG

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The improvement of graft survival over the past decade has mainly been due to the development of more highly specific immunosuppressive agents, such as cyclosporine (CsA) and FK506. CsA and FK506 inhibit T cell activation by interfering with the calcium-mediated pathway, one of two pathways needed for T cell activatio...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Geiselhart L,Conti DJ,Freed BM

更新日期：1996-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective mixed leukocyte culture studies were performed in eight patients who had either rejected their marrow grafts or experienced graft-versus-host disease and in seven patients with successful marrow engraftment. In tests of pre-and post-transplant lymphocytes we found no evidence that rejection or graft-vers...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Opelz G,Gale RP

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Targeting 2-hr postdose cyclosporine (C2) levels to 1,000 to 1,700 mg/dL during the first 6 months after renal transplantation is recommended for triple immunosuppressive regimens. This trial determines whether lower C2 levels could be targeted safely in de novo kidney transplant recipients under a quadruple...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Hardinger KL,Schnitzler MA,Koch MJ,Enkvetchakul D,Desai N,Jendrisak M,Lowell JA,Miller B,Shenoy S,Brennan DC

更新日期：2004-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Histoincompatibility was analyzed to describe as precisely as possible the sequence of gross morphological events taking place during allograft rejection among closely related conspecifics from a natural population of the bisexual lizard Cnemidophorus tigris. Two types of rejection were noted, depending on whether the...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Cuellar O,Smart C

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sirolimus (Rapamune, rapamycin, RAPA) is a potent immunosuppressive drug that has reduced the rate of acute rejection episodes by more than 40% in phase III trials when added to an immunosuppression regimen of cyclosporine (CsA) and prednisone. However, RAPA treatment tends to increase lipid levels, particul...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Hoogeveen RC,Ballantyne CM,Pownall HJ,Opekun AR,Hachey DL,Jaffe JS,Oppermann S,Kahan BD,Morrisett JD

更新日期：2001-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of cyclosporine has been associated with an increased incidence of thrombosis and endothelial cell perturbation. To explore possible mechanisms involved, we examined the effects of CSA on the activation of protein C by thrombomodulin. Cultured bovine aortic endothelial cell monolayers were incubated for 24 hr ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Garcia-Maldonado M,Kaufman CE,Comp PC

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial cells serve an important role in augmenting immune responses through enhanced expression of MHC class II antigens. Immune-mediated vascular injury associated with rejection requires reendothelialization to restore vascular integrity. The origin of the reparative endothelial cells can be determined when ABO...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： O'Connell JB,Renlund DG,Bristow MR,Hammond EH

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pretransplant sera of 474 kidney graft recipients were tested for IgG-anti-F(ab')2 gamma activity. The patients had significantly higher IgG-anti-F(ab')2 gamma activity than healthy controls (P = 0.0004). Serum lymphocytotoxic antibodies were correlated with IgG-anti-F(ab')2 gamma (P = 0.004), whereas CMV infection an...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Süsal C,Groth J,Oberg HH,Terness P,May G,Opelz G

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The induction of tolerance to pig antigens in primates may facilitate the development of successful clinical xenotransplantation protocols. The infusion of mobilized porcine peripheral blood leukocytes (PBPCs, comprised of approximately 2% peripheral blood progenitor cells) into splenectomized preconditioned...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Appel JZ 3rd,Alwayn IP,Correa LE,Cooper DK,Robson SC

更新日期：2001-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased blood loss is a major contributory factor to postoperative short- and longterm outcome in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). Hyperfibrinolysis, occurring mainly in the anhepatic phase, and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), starting immediately after reperfusion, have been observed to paralle...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Himmelreich G,Hundt K,Neuhaus P,Roissant R,Riess H

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sensitization to human leukocyte antigens (HLA) is a significant barrier to transplantation. Currently, no proven therapy exists to improve access to transplantation for highly sensitized patients. Here, we report a novel approach using intravenous immune globulin to modulate anti-HLA antibody and improve th...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Jordan SC,Vo A,Bunnapradist S,Toyoda M,Peng A,Puliyanda D,Kamil E,Tyan D

更新日期：2003-08-27 00:00:00