Heart Transplantation

Early Versus Late Conversion From Immediate to Prolonged-Release Tacrolimus After Renal Transplantation: Clinical Effects and Treatment Costs.

INTRODUCTION: Prolonged-release tacrolimus (PR-TAC) was associated with improved renal function afte...

Acute Retroviral Syndrome Presenting as Acute Hepatitis.

Acute retroviral syndrome (ARS) can present as a wide array of clinical manifestations. Establishing...

Isolated Pulmonary Cryptococcosis Confused with Lung Tumor 5 Years After Kidney Transplantation: A Case Report.

BACKGROUND: In transplant recipients, due to the use of immunosuppressive therapy, it is occasionall...

Endophthalmitis following cataract surgery and intracameral antibiotic: Moxifloxacin resistant .

PURPOSE: To describe an immunosuppressed patient who developed acute-onset postoperative endophthalm...

A 6 Second Analytical Method for Quantitation of Tacrolimus in Whole Blood by Use of Laser Diode Thermal Desorption Tandem Mass Spectrometry.

BACKGROUND: Therapeutic drug monitoring of immunosuppressive drugs is imperative for organ transplan...

Maneuvering and stabilization control of a bipedal robot with a universal-spatial robotic tail.

This paper analyzes control methodologies to implement maneuvering and stabilization behaviors in a ...

Conversion from tacrolimus to belatacept improves renal function in kidney transplant patients with chronic vascular lesions in allograft biopsy.

BACKGROUND: Conversion from tacrolimus to belatacept has been shown to be beneficial for an increasi...

Morphological profiling using machine learning reveals emergent subpopulations of interferon-γ-stimulated mesenchymal stromal cells that predict immunosuppression.

BACKGROUND: Although a preponderance of pre-clinical data demonstrates the immunosuppressive potenti...

Tacrolimus Suppositories in Therapy-Resistant Ulcerative Proctitis.

BACKGROUND: Ulcerative proctitis may often be managed with topical salicylates or steroids alone, bu...

Usefulness of Delayed Introduction of Tacrolimus in Kidney Transplants Using Type-III Donors After Circulatory Death.

INTRODUCTION: Our study compares 2 immunosuppressive strategies to reduce tacrolimus nephrotoxicity ...

The future is coming: promising perspectives regarding the use of machine learning in renal transplantation.

INTRODUCTION: The prediction of post transplantation outcomes is clinically important and involves s...

Minimally invasive, robot-assisted procedure for kidney transplantation among morbidly obese: Positive outcomes at 5 years post-transplant.

The pre-transplant weight loss required of end-stage renal disease patients is often unachievable. T...

Diagnosis of T-cell-mediated kidney rejection in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues using RNA-Seq-based machine learning algorithms.

Molecular diagnosis is being increasingly used in transplant pathology to render more objective and ...

Effect of Hepatitis C Treatment on Renal Function in Liver Transplant Patients.

Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is uniformly recurrent after liver transplant (LT) and recurrence is associ...

Long-term Glomerular Filtration Rate and Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes Stage Stability After Conversion to Once-Daily Tacrolimus in Kidney Transplant Recipients.

Close monitoring of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is important for early recognition o...

A cure-rate model for Q-learning: Estimating an adaptive immunosuppressant treatment strategy for allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant patients.

Cancers treated by transplantation are often curative, but immunosuppressive drugs are required to p...

Artificial intelligence improves estimation of tacrolimus area under the concentration over time curve in renal transplant recipients.

Artificial neural network model for predicting the bioavailability of tacrolimus in patients with renal transplantation.

The objective of the current study was to explore the role of ABCB1 and CYP3A5 genetic polymorphisms...

Female Choice Leads to a Switch in Oval Squid Male Mating Tactics.

Oval squids are polyandrous, with one female mating with multiple males during the spawning season. ...

Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Representations for Robust Footstep Recognition with Deep Residual Neural Networks.

Human footsteps can provide a unique behavioural pattern for robust biometric systems. We propose sp...

Eculizumab for Thrombotic Microangiopathy Associated with Antibody-Mediated Rejection after ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation.

Thrombotic microangiopathy is a form of antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR): it is the main complicat...