In situ expression of tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interferon-gamma, and interleukin-2 receptors in renal allograft biopsies.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence on prevalence and correlates of pretransplant medication nonadherence (MNA) is limited. The present study explored self-reported prevalence and correlates of MNA before heart, liver, and lung transplantation. METHODS:This cross-sectional descriptive study included 174 patients: 69 lung, 33 heart, a...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Dobbels F,Vanhaecke J,Desmyttere A,Dupont L,Nevens F,De Geest S

更新日期：2005-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ABO-incompatible (ABOi) and positive crossmatch (XM) renal transplants pose special immunologic challenges. It is important to compare outcomes, study resource utilization, and attempt to risk stratify patients in these higher risk transplant settings. METHODS:We compared apheresis utilization and transplan...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Padmanabhan A,Ratner LE,Jhang JS,Duong JK,Markowitz GS,Vasilescu ER,Crew RJ,Schwartz J

更新日期：2009-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite previous attempts there is currently no suitable animal model available for xenogeneic graft versus host disease (XGVHD) mediated via human immunocompetent cells. Recently, we have developed an efficient protocol to engraft SCID mice with human peripheral blood lymphocytes (Hu-PBLs). The engraftment efficiency...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Sandhu JS,Gorczynski R,Shpitz B,Gallinger S,Nguyen HP,Hozumi N

更新日期：1995-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to the equine-derived polyclonal antithymocyte preparation, ATGAM, frequently elicits human anti-ATGAM antibody formation. The influence of concomitant immunosuppressants on this antiantibody response has not been established. We therefore evaluated IgG antibody formation to ATGAM in 47 patients receiving ATG...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Kimball JA,Pescovitz MD,Book BK,Norman DJ

更新日期：1995-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-term outcomes of solid organ transplantation have improved dramatically over the past several decades; however, long-term survival has remained static over the same period, and chronic rejection remains a major cause of graft failure. The importance of donor, or "passenger," lymphocytes to the induction of toler...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Prosser AC,Kallies A,Lucas M

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In France, the need for continuous monitoring of transplant center performance has recently become apparent. Cumulative sum (CUSUM) monitoring of transplantation is already been used to monitor transplant outcomes in the United Kingdom and in the United States. Because CUSUM monitoring can be applied by diff...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Alexandrine B,Savoye E,Pessione F,Cantrelle C,Jasseron C,Santin G,Bastien O,Legeai C

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most patients with secondary hypertension due to renal disease or on maintenance hemodialysis have lost the physiologic fall of blood pressure during sleep. To test the notion that kidney transplantation normalizes the blood pressure profile, we monitored ambulatory blood pressure over 24 hr in 45 patients (29 males a...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Gatzka CD,Schobel HP,Klingbeil AU,Neumayer HH,Schmieder RE

更新日期：1995-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood transfusions are common in patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD), and their effects on sensitization, rejection, and liver graft survival are not well known. These effects were examined in 121 recipients of primary liver grafts, surviving > or = 30 days. Ninety-six (79%) patients received transfusions bef...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Koneru B,Harrison D,Rizwan M,Holland BK,Ippolito T,Holman MJ,Leevy CB

更新日期：1997-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cytomegalovirus infection after heart transplantation is considered as risk factor for the development of transplant arteriosclerosis. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) as a single risk factor on transplant arteriosclerosis in an experimental ao...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Heim C,Abele-Ohl S,Eckl S,Ramsperger-Gleixner M,Mahmoudian S,Weyand M,Stamminger T,Ensminger SM

更新日期：2010-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed HLA data from the UNOS registry on 20,230 patients on the renal waiting list in 1991 and 18,708 donors from 1988-1992. Significant differences were found in the distribution of HLA antigens for comparisons of the total donor pool and the various racial groups of patients as well as for inter- and intr...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Leffell MS,Steinberg AG,Bias WB,Machan CH,Zachary AA

更新日期：1994-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the value of duodenal histology as a means to diagnose acute rejection in pancreaticoduodenal allografts has been validated, it is not known how the duodenum responds to antirejection treatment in comparison with the pancreas. METHODS:Diabetic Lewis rats received a pancreaticoduodenal allograft. Cy...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Mark W,Hechenleitner P,Dietze O,Klima G,Schneeberger S,Steurer W,Candinas D,Margreiter R,Königsrainer A

更新日期：2002-01-27 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：:The results of kidney retransplantation in the cyclosporine era remain to be determined. Over a 42-month period, 76 nonprimary renal transplants (66 second, 7 third, 3 fourth allografts) were performed in 73 recipients under cyclosporine immunosuppression. The patient population was predominantly white (90.4%) with a ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Stratta RJ,Oh CS,Sollinger HW,Pirsch JD,Kalayoglu M,Belzer FO

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the preventive effect of the immunosuppressive agent FK506 on autoimmune insulitis in nonobese diabetic mice. The mice were given FK506 in a dose of 1.0 mg/kg, every other day, from age 2 to 12, 2 to 6, and 4 to 12 weeks, respectively; after which, the incidence of insulitis and overt diabetes was moni...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Kai N,Motojima K,Tsunoda T,Kanematsu T

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been suggested that cytomegalovirus infection increases the risk of ischemic heart disease. Both cytomegalovirus and ischemic heart disease are common after renal transplantation, suggesting a possible causal association in this population. METHODS AND PATIENTS:We studied 1004 consecutive renal trans...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Hernández D,Hanson E,Kasiske MK,Danielson B,Roel J,Kasiske BL

更新日期：2001-10-27 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：:A rapid microcytotoxicity assay for the detection of HL-A antigens on tissue culture cells derived from human solid tumors is described. Tumor cells were prelabeled with 125Iododeoxyuridine. Isotopically labeled tumor cells were reacted with up to 37 highly selected HL-A antisera and diluted rabbit complement. Results...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Fritze D,Kern DH,Drogemuller CR,Pilch YH

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-eight renal transplant recipients who had been followed for 1-6.5 years (median 3.2 years) were reviewed to determine the effect of donor and recipient hepatitis B surface antigen status on the incidence of hepatitis and on patient survival. The cumulative risk of developing hepatitis posttransplant was signifi...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Chan PC,Lok AS,Cheng IK,Chan MK

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Allograft rejection is mediated by cytokines. As polymorphism in cytokine genes can result in interindividual differences in cytokine production, we hypothesize that some patients may have an increased risk of rejection. METHODS:We have related polymorphisms that influence cytokine production in the tumor n...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Turner D,Grant SC,Yonan N,Sheldon S,Dyer PA,Sinnott PJ,Hutchinson IV

更新日期：1997-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:BMA 031 (Behring Monoclonal Antibody) was given to 25 renal graft recipients with biopsy-proven steroid-resistant rejections. A dose of 50 mg of BMA 031 was given i.v. on 7 consecutive days concomitantly with a standard triple-drug regimen. No premedication was administered before the first BMA 031 dose. After the fir...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Pfeffer PF,Ohlman S,Jakobsen A,Fauchald P,Leivestad T,Tydén G,Flatmark A

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HLAs are fundamental to the adaptive immune response and play critical roles in the cellular and humoral response in solid organ transplantation. The genes encoding HLA proteins are the most polymorphic within the human genome, with thousands of different allelic variants known within the population. Application of th...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Kransdorf EP,Pando MJ,Gragert L,Kaplan B

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently trials of immunosuppression in transplantation are in decline because their objectives remain focused on improving acute rejection rates and graft survival in the first 12 months. With 1 year renal graft survival rates of greater than 90% the best that can be hoped for is noninferiority trial outcomes compar...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： OʼConnell PJ,Kuypers DR,Mannon RB,Abecassis M,Chadban SJ,Gill JS,Murphy B,Nickerson PW,Schold JD,Stock PG,Seron D,Alloway RR,Bromberg JS,Budde K,Jordan SC,Legendre C,Lefaucheur C,Sarwall M,Segev DL,Stegall MD,Tull

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Functionally relevant polymorphisms in genes of the Th1 and Th2-inflammatory pathway influence the susceptibility to acute rejection (AR), chronic allograft nephropathy (CAN), and subclinical rejection (SR) as well as graft survival after renal transplantation. Because these findings have not been validated,...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Brabcova I,Petrasek J,Hribova P,Hyklova K,Bartosova K,Lacha J,Viklický O

更新日期：2007-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (mAb) OKT3 is immunosuppressive, but causes severe adverse effects during the first administration ("first-dose reaction"). These adverse effects are presumably caused by cytokine release that results from T-cell activation. In vitro, T-cell activation by anti-CD3 mAb requires interaction ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Tax WJ,Tamboer WP,Jacobs CW,Frenken LA,Koene RA

更新日期：1997-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytotoxicity of tumour-bearer serum against a transplanted aminoazodye-induced rat hepatoma was revealed using normal rat serum as the source of complement as assessed using a short-term 51Cr release test. The tumour-bearing rat was not deficient in a functional complement system and direct cytolysis against hepat...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Price MR,Höffken K,Baldwin RW

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent changes in policies guiding allocation of transplant kidneys are predicted to increase sharing between distant geographic regions. The potential exists for an increase in cold ischemia time (CIT) with resulting increases in delayed graft function (DGF) and transplant-related costs (TRC). We sought to ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Serrano OK,Vock DM,Chinnakotla S,Dunn TB,Kandaswamy R,Pruett TL,Feldman R,Matas AJ,Finger EB

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-mediated cytotoxicity directed toward pancreatic islets plays a significant role in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes mellitus. Histologically, autoimmune insulitis appears as mononuclear infiltrates that precede actual beta cell loss. Experimental studies by Bartlett et al. on the BB rat model suggest that who...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Drachenberg CB,Papadimitriou JC,Weir MR,Klassen DK,Hoehn-Saric E,Bartlett ST

更新日期：1996-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The autonomic storm accompanying brain death leads to neurogenic pulmonary edema and triggers development of systemic and pulmonary inflammatory responses. Neurogenic vasoplegia exacerbates the pulmonary injury caused by brain death and primes the lung for ischemia reperfusion injury and primary graft dysfun...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Rostron AJ,Avlonitis VS,Cork DM,Grenade DS,Kirby JA,Dark JH

更新日期：2008-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Immunogenicity of a graft depends on its expression of major histocompatability complex (MHC) antigens and adhesion molecules and on the amount of intragraft leukocytes, the so-called passenger leukocytes. Although long-term culture reduces passenger leukocytes, permanent acceptance is not necessarily observ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Kuttler B,Hartmann A,Wanka H

更新日期：2002-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Successful kidney transplantation normalizes elevated proatrial natriuretic peptide (proANP) plasma concentrations of renal failure patients in the early posttransplant period. We evaluated plasma and urinary proANP fragments in the late posttransplant period. METHODS:Immunoreactive proANP(1-30) and proANP(...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Franz M,Woloszczuk W,Hörl WH

更新日期：2001-07-15 00:00:00