Switch from calcineurin inhibitors to sirolimus-induced renal recovery in heart transplant recipients in the midterm follow-up.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thymoglobulin given before allo-hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) from unrelated donors reduces acute graft-versus-host disease (GvHD), but the optimal dose is unknown. METHOD:Four different doses of Thymoglobulin were given to 162 patients with hematologic malignancies undergoing unrelated don...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Remberger M,Svahn BM,Mattsson J,Ringdén O

更新日期：2004-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:T-cell receptor transgenic (TCR-tg) mouse models with direct CD4 alloreactivity will help elucidate mechanisms of transplant rejection and tolerance in vivo. Although such models exist, they are limited by unusual strain combinations or are based on model antigens. METHODS:A TCR-tg mouse with direct CD4 spe...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Brennan TV,Hoang V,Garrod KR,Liu FC,Hayden T,Kim J,Kang SM

更新日期：2008-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Athymic PVG-rnu/rnu (RT1c) rats were grafted with skin bearing isolated MHC disparities 7-14 days in advance of cell transfer. The ability of naive CD4+ or CD8+ thoracic duct lymphocytes to induce rejection was assessed by adoptive transfer of one or both T cell subsets into nude recipients bearing congenic PVG.r1 (MH...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Bell EB,Rejali D,Whitby EH,Sparshott SM,Yang CP

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This study examines the efficacy and toxicity of sirolimus used as primary immunosuppression in combination with reduced dose tacrolimus (calcineurin inhibitor [CI]-sparing regimen) or mycophenolate mofetil (CI-free regimen) in high-risk cadaveric renal transplantation. METHODS:Seventy subjects were treat...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Lo A,Egidi MF,Gaber LW,Amiri HS,Vera S,Nezakatgoo N,Gaber AO

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:After the discontinuation of the manufacturing Liberase HI because of a small potential for prion disease transmission, Roche Diagnostics (Indianapolis, IN) developed a new enzyme product (Liberase MTF [mammalian tissue free]), which is similar to Liberase HI with the exception that no mammalian tissue is us...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： O'Gorman D,Kin T,Imes S,Pawlick R,Senior P,Shapiro AM

更新日期：2010-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Immunotherapy given post-autologous stem cell transplantation may eliminate residual tumor cells escaping the conditioning protocol. METHODS:Five children suffering from stage IV neuroblastoma were treated by recombinant interleukin-2 (IL-2) post-autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation. The pa...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Toren A,Nagler A,Rozenfeld-Granot G,Levanon M,Davidson J,Bielorai B,Kaplinsky C,Meitar D,Mandel M,Ackerstein A,Ballin A,Attias D,Biniaminov M,Rosenthal E,Brok-Simoni F,Rechavi G,Kaufmann Y

更新日期：2000-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role of CD20+ B cells in renal allograft rejection has been reappreciated. Importantly, recent studies suggest a relation between CD20+ B cell aggregates and poorer clinical outcome. In the present study, we attempted to confirm these early reports in a tightly controlled patient population and to differ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Scheepstra C,Bemelman FJ,van der Loos C,Rowshani AT,van Donselaar-Van der Pant KA,Idu MM,ten Berge IJ,Florquin S

更新日期：2008-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) remains associated with reduced kidney graft survival and no clear prognostic marker is available. METHODS:We investigated whether donor-specific antibodies (DSA) ability to bind C1q in comparison with AMR C4d status, both indirect signs of complement activation, improve ri...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Malheiro J,Santos S,Tafulo S,Dias L,Martins S,Fonseca I,Almeida M,Pedroso S,Beirão I,Castro-Henriques A,Cabrita A

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Liver transplantation from donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors is an increasingly common approach for expansion of the donor organ supply. However, transplantation with DCD livers results in inferior graft survival. In this study, we examined donor and recipient characteristics that are associated with...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Lee KW,Simpkins CE,Montgomery RA,Locke JE,Segev DL,Maley WR

更新日期：2006-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyze, in heart transplant patients, if renal function improvement after cyclosporine replacement by everolimus persists at the middle term and its predictors. We studied prospectively 56 patients in whom conversion was consecutively made. Forty-five patients completed the follow-up peri...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Moro López JA,Almenar L,Martínez-Dolz L,Sánchez-Lázaro I,Agüero J,Buendía F,Ortiz V,Salvador A

更新日期：2009-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiovascular disease remains epidemic in transplant recipients, despite aggressive treatment of cardiovascular risk factors. Thus, novel risk factors could play a role in the genesis of cardiovascular events in this population. METHODS:We evaluated the impact of early posttransplant anemia on cardiovascul...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Djamali A,Becker YT,Simmons WD,Johnson CA,Premasathian N,Becker BN

更新日期：2003-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:All-cause mortality is high after kidney transplantation (KT), but no prognostic index has focused on predicting mortality in KT using baseline and emergent comorbidity after KT. METHODS:A total of 4928 KT recipients were used to derive a risk score predicting mortality. Patients were randomly assigned to t...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Hernández D,Sánchez-Fructuoso A,González-Posada JM,Arias M,Campistol JM,Rufino M,Morales JM,Moreso F,Pérez G,Torres A,Serón D,Spanish Late Allograft Dysfunction Study Group.

更新日期：2009-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We carried out an analysis of the United States Renal Data System to determine the incidence, risk factors, prognosis, and costs associated with the diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) after kidney transplantation. METHODS:This is a retrospective cohort of 40,821 Medicare primary renal transplant reci...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Hurst FP,Jindal RM,Graham LJ,Falta EM,Elster EA,Stackhouse GB,Agodoa LY,Lentine KL,Salifu MO,Abbott KC

更新日期：2010-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We have previously shown that both thymic immigrants (graft to thymus pathway) and thymic emigrants (thymus to graft pathway) are involved in tolerance to renal allografts in miniature swine treated with a short course of calcineurin inhibitors. This study investigates the role of these pathways in cardiac t...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Yamamoto S,Teranishi K,Kamano C,Samelson-Jones E,Arakawa H,Nobori S,Okumi M,Houser S,Shimizu A,Sachs DH,Yamada K

更新日期：2006-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent insights suggest that endothelial cell (EC) activation plays a major role in renal ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury. Interactions between ECs and pericytes via signaling molecules, including angiopoietins, are involved in maintenance of the vascular integrity. Experimental data have shown that enhanc...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： de Vries DK,Khairoun M,Lindeman JH,Bajema IM,de Heer E,Roest M,van Zonneveld AJ,van Kooten C,Rabelink TJ,Schaapherder AF,Reinders ME

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive microvascular endothelial damage is a characteristic feature of fulminant acute cardiac allograft rejection in the rat. Serial ultrastructural tracer studies using i.v. administered colloidal carbon and horseradish peroxidase have been performed in an adoptive transfer model to determine the role of cellul...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Lowry RP,Forbes RD

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the experiment described here, we investigated the effects of the immunosuppressants FK506 and leflunomide (Lef) on the survival of hamster hearts and liver xenografts in Lewis rats. METHODS:Lewis rats were used as recipients of hamster heart or liver grafts using different regimens of FK506 and Lef. Don...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Sankary HN,Yin DP,Chong AS,Ma LL,Blinder L,Shen JK,Foster P,Williams JW

更新日期：1998-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo cell-mediated effector mechanisms of allograft destruction were investigated in a canine single-lung transplantation model. This large animal model permits direct longitudinal studies of immune effector cells from the grafts of individual recipients by bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). Evidence was obtained that t...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Norin AJ,Kamholz SL

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study addresses the question of the mechanism for maintaining tolerance to donor alloantigen in the absence of antigen and the role of secondary lymphoid tissues. METHODS:Depleting anti-CD4 antibody administration in conjunction with allogeneic heart transplantation generates donor-specific operational...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Chosa E,Hara M,Watanabe A,Matsuzaki Y,Nakamura K,Hamano K,Wood KJ,Onitsuka T

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Serum citrulline is a marker for acute cellular rejection (ACR) after intestinal transplantation; however, its clinical utility has not yet been established. The goal of this study was to determine clearcut serum levels beyond which the diagnosis of acute rejection could be supported or refuted, and predicto...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： David AI,Selvaggi G,Ruiz P,Gaynor JJ,Tryphonopoulos P,Kleiner GI,Moon JI,Nishida S,Pappas PA,Conanan L,Weppler D,Esquenazi V,Levi DM,Kato T,Tzakis AG

更新日期：2007-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CTLA4IgG that binds to B7 effectively inhibits the signaling of CD28/B7 pathway and induces antigen-specific T-cell unresponsiveness in vitro and in vivo. We examined whether the development of obliterative bronchiolitis in a murine heterotopic airway transplantation model is T cell dependent and whether CTL...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Yamada A,Konishi K,Cruz GL,Takehara M,Morikawa M,Nakagawa I,Murakami M,Abe T,Todo S,Uede T

更新日期：2000-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thromboembolism has been reported as a frequent complication after cardiac transplantation. Many risk factors for thrombosis may explain this, such as metabolic alterations and the use of cyclosporine. In the general population, two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), factor V Leiden and prothrombin G202...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Miriuka SG,Langman LJ,Evrovski J,Miner SE,Kozuszko S,D'Mello N,Delgado DH,Wong BY,Ross HJ,Cole DE

更新日期：2005-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonmajor histocompatibility complex (non-MHC) antigens are important targets of graft rejection and graft-versus-host disease in clinical transplantation. Little is known regarding immunity to non-MHC antigens. To study this problem we evaluated the effect of antihuman thymocyte globulin (ATG) on reactivity in autolog...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Harada M,Gale RP

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats have decreased guanylate cyclase (EC 4.6.1.2) activity in liver and other tissues which was returned to normal by the administration of exogenous insulin. Since successful pancreatic islet transplants have been shown to lower basal hepatic gluco...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Vesely DL,Selawry H,Levey GS

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The purpose of the current study was to investigate the capacity of CD4+, CD8+, or non-T cells to independently initiate acute rejection of allogeneic hepatocytes using reconstituted SCID, CD4 or CD8 knockout (KO) recipient mice. METHODS:Allogeneic hepatocytes (FVB/N, H-2q) were transplanted into C57BL/6....

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Bumgardner GL,Gao D,Li J,Baskin JH,Heininger M,Orosz CG

更新日期：2000-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Living-related (LR) human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-identical renal transplant (RTx) recipients often receive standard immunosuppression, despite the absence of mismatched major HLA-antigens and the known complications of long-term use of immunosuppression. No data are available on the need for immunosuppressi...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： van de Wetering J,Gerrits JH,van Besouw NM,Ijzermans JN,Weimar W

更新日期：2009-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this prospective, multicenter, noncomparative, open-label trial was to evaluate the prophylactic use of caspofungin in adult liver transplant recipients at high risk of developing invasive fungal infections (IFI). METHODS:Patients received caspofungin for at least 21 days. A successful treatment o...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Fortún J,Martín-Dávila P,Montejo M,Muñoz P,Cisneros JM,Ramos A,Aragón C,Blanes M,San Juan R,Gavaldá J,Llinares P,GESITRA Study Group.

更新日期：2009-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:High levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interleukin-2, and gamma-interferon appeared in the circulation of kidney transplant recipients after the first injection of the monoclonal antibody OKT3. This initial injection was systematically followed by fever. The three cytokines were released in all patients (n = 9), ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Abramowicz D,Schandene L,Goldman M,Crusiaux A,Vereerstraeten P,De Pauw L,Wybran J,Kinnaert P,Dupont E,Toussaint C

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction to compare gene expression in different tissues and conditions requires normalization to an internal control that must be expressed at a constant level. Although a previous validation step is required to confirm that an internal control is appropriat...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Rodriguez-Mulero S,Montanya E

更新日期：2005-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Statins are an established therapy after cardiac transplantation. Sirolimus (Srl) has been used successfully in cardiac transplant patients. However, potential side effects are hyperlipidemia and interactions with statins. The aim of the study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of statin therapy after...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Aliabadi AZ,Mahr S,Dunkler D,Grömmer M,Zimpfer D,Wolner E,Grimm M,Zuckermann AO

更新日期：2008-12-27 00:00:00