Transplant patients
Differentially methylated regions in T cells identify kidney transplant patients at risk for de novo skin cancer
... The findings presented here demonstrate the potential of studying DNA methylation of the T cells to identify kidney transplant patients at risk for de novo post-transplant cSCC [47]. We showed that ...
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Defective neutrophil chemotaxis in bone marrow transplant patients
... such patients, no systematic study of neutrophil function has yet been ...34 patients with acute leukemia or aplastic ...18 patients, moderately depressed (35-65% of normal) in an additional 6, and ...
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A Review on Pharmacology of Tacrolimus In Renal Transplant Patients
... Tacrolimus, also known as FK506 or Prograf, is a macrolide compound that was isolated by Fujisawa researchers from the culture broth of a soil microorganism Streptomyces tsukubaensis near Mount Tsukuba, Japan in 1984, ...
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Transplant tourism among kidney transplant patients in Eastern Nigeria
... to transplant tourism among these end stage kidney transplant patients as reported in this study could have accrued from paucity of transplant centers in Nigeria and overwhelming ignorance in ...
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Infections and immunomodulation on liver transplant patients
... Infection in the early post-transplant period (<1 month) is most commonly bacterial and are primarily nosocomial such as enterococci, staphylococci, gram-negative aerobes, anaerobes or candida species. They ...
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Preoperative psychological evaluation of transplant patients: challenges and solutions
... assessing patients’ characteristics that predict best postoperative outcome after solid organ ...assessing patients for reconstructive hand transplantation, the psychological evaluation should identify ...
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The use of everolimus in renal-transplant patients
... all patients were treated with CsA, EC-MPS and corticosteroids for the first ...Subsequently, patients were randomized 1:1 to either continue the current regimen of CsA and EC-MPS or to convert from CsA to ...
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A Study of Anemia in Post Renal Transplant Patients
... long-term transplant recipients, there is limited information regarding the association of anemia with adverse cardiovascular ...638 transplant recipients between 1969 and 1999 who were alive and free of ...
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The relationship between infection and rejection in renal transplant patients
... In patients with renal insufficiency, dosage modifications are necessary for agents that are excreted mainly by the ...of patients with renal failure ...
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Individualized immunosuppression in transplant patients: potential role of pharmacogenetics
... Belatacept is the most recently introduced immunosuppres- sive drug. It is a fusion protein between a genetically modi- fied CD152 (CTLA4) domain and a human immunoglobulin G domain. It blocks costimulation of ...
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Responses of coronary arteries of cardiac transplant patients to acetylcholine
... transplantation. Graft atherosclerosis is typically diffuse and difficult to detect even with coronary arteriography. Recently, acetylcholine was shown to dilate blood vessels by releasing a vasorelaxant substance from ...
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Hip arthroplasty for treatment of advanced osteonecrosis: comprehensive review of implant options, outcomes and complications
... total hip replacements in renal transplant patients for a mean duration of 3.1 years and found that none of the hips had to be revised. They concluded that the early results of porous-coated implants were ...
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Laboratory Diagnosis of Infections in Cancer Patients: Challenges and Opportunities
... In general, molecular quantitative CMV tests provide earlier detection of CMV viremia than pp65 antigenemia tests, although the increased sensitivity may result in unnecessary prolonged therapy and increased toxicity. ...
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Role of tacrolimus prolonged release in the prevention of allograft rejection
... solid-organ transplant recipient begins with prevention of rejection and achieving a balance between insufficient and excessive ...solid-organ transplant rejection consists of 2 divided doses per ...
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Imaging indications and findings in evaluation of lung transplant graft dysfunction and rejection
... lung transplant patients with declining allograft function weeks to months after transplant includes acute rejection, infection, airway complications (air- way stenosis, tracheobronchomalacia, or ...
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Rapid Recovery of Diabetes Two Months after Discontinuation of Tacrolimus (FK-506) in a Single Lung Transplant Patient
... renal transplant patients within three years after the procedure, contributes to post-transplant morbidity and mortality by increasing the risk of infection and cardiovascular ...
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Advanced pulmonary arterial hypertension: mechanical support and lung transplantation
... PAH patients who survive the early post-transplant period, long-term outcomes are good and are frequently better than for many other ...primary transplant patients with IPAH who survived to 1 ...
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Patients Returning to Dialysis after Failed Kidney Transplant: How Do They Fare? A Gulf Perspective
... failed transplant patients returning to dialysis (FTRD) have been ob- served with reported worse survival compared to transplant-naive dialysis (TxN) ...Nx patients showed more ...
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Kidney transplant in diabetic patients: modalities, indications and results
... diabetic patients with chronic renal failure have the following therapy options: kidney transplant from a living donor, pancreas after kidney transplant, simultaneous pancreas-kidney ...
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Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV/HCV Co Infection Italian Consensus Workshop
... of patients, the pri- mary cause of mortality is liver disease, which accounts for up to 14% of ...exposes patients to a higher risk of progression to AIDS, a faster evolution towards cirrhosis, more ...
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