The prevalence of TT virus infection in renal transplant recipients in Brazil.

abstract：BACKGROUND:More than 60% children with small bowel transplantation (SBTx) experience acute cellular rejection. PURPOSE/METHODS:To identify children at risk of rejection, donor- and third-party-induced proliferation of T-helper and T cytotoxic (Tc) cells, and their naïve and memory (M) subsets was evaluated simultaneou...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Ashokkumar C,Gupta A,Sun Q,Higgs BW,Ningappa M,Snyder S,Johnson M,Mazariegos G,Soltys K,Bond G,Abu-Elmagd K,Sindhi R

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND.: Rabbit antithymocyte globulins (rATGs) are known to convert CD4CD25FoxP3 T cells from healthy individuals to CD4CD25FoxP3 T cells. In this study, we investigated the effect of rATG on the induction of regulatory T cells (Tregs) from blood cells of patients with end-stage renal disease who are candidates f...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Sewgobind VD,van der Laan LJ,Kho MM,Kraaijeveld R,Korevaar SS,van Dam T,Ijzermans JN,Weimar W,Baan CC

更新日期：2010-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 113 cyclosporine-treated primary renal allograft recipients, 60 were randomized to receive standard therapy without diltiazem (ND) and 53 received standard therapy plus diltiazem (D). There was no difference in CsA blood levels between ND and D at all intervals between 3 and 24 months follow-up, yet the D group req...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Chrysostomou A,Walker RG,Russ GR,d'Apice AJ,Kincaid-Smith P,Mathew TH

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively reviewed the clinical data of all renal transplant patients treated with cyclosporine as their main chronic immunosuppressive agent between 12/83 and 11/85 to identify cytomegalovirus-negative patients at our institutions who received cytomegalovirus (CMV)-positive kidneys. Using a latex agglutinati...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Weir MR,Irwin BC,Maters AW,Genemans G,Shen SY,Charache P,Williams GM

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Conflicting data have been reported about the effect of Toxoplasma serostatus on mortality after heart transplantation. Either a positive or a negative recipient Toxoplasma serostatus was found to be associated with increased mortality. METHODS:We evaluated the effects of T. gondii infection on survival of ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： van Hellemond JJ,van Domburg RT,Caliskan K,Birim O,Balk AH

更新日期：2013-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Agarose is known to inhibit nonspecifically the cytotoxic effects of normal sera on xenogeneic lymphoid cells. To find an explanation for this agarose effect we have studied its requirements using guinea pig and human sera as the source of activity and rat thymocytes as target cells. Control assays were performed usin...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Budzko DB,Kierszenbaum F

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an unusual case of massive pseudolymphomatous pericardial effusion in a cardiac transplant recipient. The near-coincidental development of the lymphocytic effusion and an EBV-associated tonsillar lymphoproliferative disorder suggested that the effusion was a manifestation of a posttransplant B cell lymphopro...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Hudnall SD,Melez K,Galindo A,Bryson Y

更新日期：1996-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal transplantation has become the treatment of choice for patients who are experiencing life-threatening complications of intestinal failure. Early attempts with intestinal transplantation were unsuccessful as a consequence of both technical and immunologic failures. The introduction of tacrolimus provided the...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Langnas AN

更新日期：2004-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The clinical impact of chronic transplant glomerulopathy (CTG) on the outcome of kidney allograft receiving calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs) remains uncertain. A retrospective study of renal transplant recipients at Ospedale Maggiore of Milan was undertaken to evaluate the clinical outcome of patients with CTG....

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Banfi G,Villa M,Cresseri D,Ponticelli C

更新日期：2005-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In the USA approximately 10% of candidates for renal transplantation have serum antibodies to hepatitis C (HCV). To assess the possible impact of HCV infection on early posttransplant events we assessed allograft complications during the first 6 months following renal transplantation in three groups of adult renal all...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Cosio FG,Sedmak DD,Henry ML,Al Haddad C,Falkenhain ME,Elkhammas EA,Davies EA,Bumgardner GL,Ferguson RM

更新日期：1996-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We have previously demonstrated that in a concordant hamster-to-nude rat cardiac transplant model, T-independent specific B-lymphocyte and natural killer (NK)-cell tolerance could be induced, leading to long-term xenograft (Xg) survival. Here, we investigated whether the same could be achieved in a clinicall...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Ji P,Xia G,Sefrioui H,Rutgeerts O,Segers C,Waer M

更新日期：1999-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a multicenter study to investigate the problem of cadaver kidney transplants that never achieve function, or that recover after a period of delayed function, and we used multivariate techniques to model the results. Sixty-nine patients who received cadaver kidney transplants that never functioned (NF) wer...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Halloran P,Aprile M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-five dogs with spontaneous malignant lymphoma in chemotherapy-induced remission were treated with total-body irradiation (TBI) and bone marrow transplantation. Among 38 dogs treated with 8.4 Gy delivered at 4 cGy/min, 9 (24%) became long-term disease-free survivors. Ten of the 38 (26%) died of transplant-relate...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Appelbaum FR,Deeg HJ,Storb R,Self S,Graham TC,Sale GE,Weiden PL

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the results of all percutaneous fine needle aspirations (FNA) and open lung biopsies (OLB) after bone marrow transplantation at our center (1984-1987) for the evaluation of focal lung lesions that developed or persisted despite antibiotic administration. We sought to determine the prevalence and types of i...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Crawford SW,Hackman RC,Clark JG

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We previously reported that Lewis rat hearts transplanted into BALB/c mice developed typical acute vascular rejection (AVR). The present study was undertaken to determine the efficacy of LF15-0195, a new analogue of 15-deoxyspergualin, in the prevention of AVR and to determine whether a combination of LF15-0...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Wang H,Hosiawa KA,Garcia B,Shum JB,Dutartre P,Kelvin DJ,Zhong R

更新日期：2003-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and mechanical ventilation (MV) can be used as a bridge to heart-lung transplantation (HLT). The goal of this study was to determine if pretransplantation ECMO or MV affects survival in HLT. METHODS:The United Network for Organ Sharing database was reviewed for all...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Jayarajan SN,Taghavi S,Komaroff E,Brann S,Horai T,Cordova F,Patel N,Guy TS,Toyoda Y

更新日期：2014-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The vast majority of polyomavirus nephropathy (PVN) are due to BK virus, but rare cases result from JC virus reactivation. To date, only a handful of biopsy-proven JC-PVN cases have been reported. Here, we describe the clinical and pathologic findings in 7 patients with biopsy-proven JC-PVN. METHODS:Search ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Wiegley N,Walavalkar V,Aujla H,Chen LX,Huang Y,Lee BK,Jen KY

更新日期：2020-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The liver plays a central role in glucose homeostasis by releasing glucose in the fasting state and by taking up and converting into glycogen part of the glucose absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract after meal ingestion. METHODS:To determine whether the hepatic denervation that accompanies liver transpl...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Schneiter P,Gillet M,Chioléro R,Wauters JP,Berger M,Tappy L

更新日期：2000-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infectious complications still represent a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with organ transplantation. In particular, small bowel or multivisceral transplantation is complicated to a greater extent than other grafts as a consequence of infectious complications including sepsis. METHODS:Th...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Guaraldi G,Cocchi S,Codeluppi M,Di Benedetto F,De Ruvo N,Masetti M,Venturelli C,Pecorari M,Pinna AD,Esposito R

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Recipients of solid organ allografts require lifelong immunosuppression in order to prevent graft rejection and to maintain graft function. In general, such immunosuppression greatly impairs the cellular immune system, as this level of the immune system is principally responsible for self and non-self recognition. The...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Van Thiel DH,Finkel R,Friedlander L,Gavaler JS,Wright HI,Gordon R

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacologic modulation of the platelet-activating factor antagonist WEB 2086BS on the release of metabolites of the arachidonic acid and the cytokine TNF alpha was investigated in an ex vivo xenograft model of hyperacute rejection. Pig kidneys were perfused for 60 min in a perfusion system with oxygenated hepari...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Saumweber DM,Bergmann R,Gokel M,Hammer C

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is an important cause of graft loss and continues to present a formidable obstacle to successful transplantation. Unresolved problems continue to be the absence of effective strategies to ablate the donor-specific antibody (DSA) response as well as to attenuate the antibody-mediated g...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Miyairi S,Baldwin WM 3rd,Valujskikh A,Fairchild RL

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major role of anti-alphaGal antibodies in the hyperacute rejection of pig organs by humans and baboons has been clearly demonstrated. Spacered alpha-galactose disaccharide (Gal(alpha1)-3Gal) hapten was produced by chemical synthesis and covalently attached to a flexible, hydrophilic polymer (PAA), which in turn wa...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Taniguchi S,Neethling FA,Korchagina EY,Bovin N,Ye Y,Kobayashi T,Niekrasz M,Li S,Koren E,Oriol R,Cooper DK

更新日期：1996-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclosporine, but not its nonimmunosuppressive analog cyclosporine H (CsH), caused in a variety of hematopoietic cell types a growth arrest in the G0/G1 phase of the cell cycle. This arrest was associated with a significant reduction in the c-myc mRNA levels, which could be observed already 1 hr following CsA treatmen...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Yonish-Rouach E,Kimchi A,Rubinstein M

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whether cytomegalovirus (CMV)-specific cell-mediated immunity (CMI) at prophylaxis cessation predicts D+/R+ kidney transplants at risk of late-onset CMV infection after receiving distinct induction therapies is still not well characterized. METHODS:We prospectively assessed CMV-specific CMI predicting late-...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Jarque M,Melilli E,Crespo E,Manonelles A,Montero N,Torras J,Cruzado JM,Luque S,Gil-Vernet S,Grinyó JM,Bestard O

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) is an important infection-related complication, whose mode of transmission remains uncertain. METHODS:We investigated a nosocomial cluster of 14 PJP cases (11 confirmed and 3 probable) in kidney transplant recipients using epidemiological and genotyping methods. RESUL...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Phipps LM,Chen SC,Kable K,Halliday CL,Firacative C,Meyer W,Wong G,Nankivell BJ

更新日期：2011-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Alloreactive T cells are often specific for individual peptides that are bound to allogeneic major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules. Other alloreactive T cells are reported to be peptide-independent or to recognize MHC conformational changes that are induced by multiple peptides. We tested 12 anti-HLA-B7 all...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Smith KD,Huczko E,Engelhard VH,Li YY,Lutz CT

更新日期：1997-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat recipients of renal allografts and unilaterally nephrectomized control rats were studied to evaluate the response in blood pressure to prednisolone in diverse doses, and to determine the dosage required to achieve adequate immunosuppression without undue complication of hypertension. While a continuous infusion of...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： de Keijzer MH,Provoost AP,Van Aken M,Wolff ED,Molenaar JC

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reactivation of cytomegalovirus (CMV) is frequently observed in recipients of solid organs and bone marrow transplants and is associated with increased risk of acute and chronic allograft rejection, opportunistic infection, graft failure, and patient mortality. The molecular mechanisms by which reactivation ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Zhang Z,Li Z,Yan S,Wang X,Abecassis M

更新日期：2009-09-15 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