Renal Comorbidity After Solid Organ and Stem Cell Transplants
After solid-organ and stem-cell transplantation, what are the risk factors for chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease?
Category : Organ Transplants & Donation : Health & Medical
Sirolimus for Renal Transplant Recipients
In kidney transplant patients, sirolimus has antineoplastic effects and may reduce skin cancer rates. Which patients need it?
Direction of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
This report describes recent steps taken by the OPTN to address public solicitation for organ donors and its oversight of live donor transplantation.
Intraportal Islet Autotransplant After Total Pancreatectomy
How much tissue volume is really safe to infuse in total pancreatectomy-islet autotransplantation for chronic pancreatitis?
Ask the Experts - Quantitative PCR for Polyomavirus?
What is the benefit of the determination of quantitative PCR for polyomavirus in renal transplant recipients? And is there any value in screening kidney donors for polyomavirus?
American Society of Transplantation on Pediatric Lung Transplantation
This consensus statement reviews the experience in the field of pediatric lung transplantation and highlights areas that deserve further investigation.
A Scorecard for Testing the Quality of a Donor Pancreas
The use of a pancreas donor risk score is found to be useful for assessing the risk of allograft failure.
Patient With Hemophilia B and HCV Infection
We have a 17-year-old patient with ESRD, moderate hemophilia B, and noncirrhotic hepatitis C virus infection. Should this patient be considered for kidney-liver transplantation?
Coronary Stents in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients
Could coronary stents serve as palliative therapy for pediatric heart transplant patients with CAD? Dr. Ron Shapiro discusses a study that suggests this as a viable strategy.
Frailty and Readmission After Kidney Transplantation
How can we keep frail kidney transplant recipients from being readmitted?
Ask the Experts - Retransplantation for Primary Liver Graft Nonfunction?
Should retransplantation be considered in the patient with primary graft nonfunction after liver transplantation for acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure?
Primary Nonfunction of Renal Allograft?
What is the diagnosis in a kidney recipient with tubulitis on biopsy and delayed uptake and no excretion on DTPA scan?
Sirolimus for Refractory GVHD
Dr. Ron Shapiro discusses the implications of a Parisian study that found sirolimus effective for the treatment of refractory graft-vs-host disease in bone marrow transplant recipients.
Ask the Experts - Prophylaxis Against Tuberculosis?
In which patients should INH (isoniazid) prophylaxis be used against post- renal transplant pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and for what duration?
Cryopreserved Agarose-Encapsulated Islets and the Future of Bioartificial
In this video blog, Ron Shapiro, MD, University of Pittsburgh, looks at a promising step in the development of bioartificial organs.
Contraindications to Organ Donation?
Is Candida in the urine culture of a potential organ donor an absolute contraindication to donation?
Renal Transplant Recipient With Delayed Graft Function
Third in a series of interactive case studies in renal transplantation by Flavio Vincenti, MD, from the University of California at San Francisco.
Equivalent Pharmacokinetics of Mycophenolate Mofetil
This study provides a rigorous comparison of steady-state pharmacokinetics of twice daily oral MMF in male and female AA and Caucasian stable renal transplant patients.
Diabetes, Hypertension and Hyperlipidemia
Is the duration of diabetes the most significant predictor of long-term mortality for adult liver transplant recipients?
Reporting Organ Trafficking Networks: Plea to Breach Secrecy
Find out how professionals can prevent organ trafficking.