Kidney Transplantation

Development of an Artificial Intelligence Model to Guide the Management of Blood Pressure, Fluid Volume, and Dialysis Dose in End-Stage Kidney Disease Patients: Proof of Concept and First Clinical Assessment.

BACKGROUND: Fluid volume and blood pressure (BP) management are crucial endpoints for end-stage kidn...

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 ...

Blood Pressure Assessment with Differential Pulse Transit Time and Deep Learning: A Proof of Concept.

BACKGROUND: Modern clinical environments are laden with technology devices continuously gathering ph...

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...

Progress in the Development and Challenges for the Use of Artificial Kidneys and Wearable Dialysis Devices.

BACKGROUND: Renal transplantation is the treatment of choice for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patien...

Artificial Intelligence and Dialysis.

Changes of Early Sepsis Biomarker Presepsin Level during Hemodialysis: Influence of β-Microglobulin Clearance of Dialysis Membrane: A Preliminary Study.

BACKGROUND: Although presepsin (P-SEP) is an early sepsis biomarker, sepsis is often suspected after...

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 ...

Societal Issues Concerning the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.

BACKGROUND: Medicine is becoming an increasingly data-centred discipline and, beyond classical stati...

Quality of life with conservative care compared with assisted peritoneal dialysis and haemodialysis.

BACKGROUND: There is little information about quality of life (QoL) for patients with end-stage kidn...

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...

Intradialytic alkalinization is a neglected factor affecting calcium mass balance and parathyroid hormone level during haemodiafiltration.

BACKGROUND: The diffusion gradient between ionized calcium (iCa) in the inlet dialysate and blood is...

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...

Partial purification and characterization of exoinulinase produced from sp.

Inulinase are industrial food enzymes which have gained much attention in recent scenario. In this s...

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...

Serum Levels of Visfatin, Omentin and Irisin in Patients with End-Stage Lung Disease Before and After Lung Transplantation.

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate serum concentrations of visfatin, irisin, and om...

Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase (IDO) Enzyme Links Innate Immunity and Altered T-Cell Differentiation in Non-ST Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome.

Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by a complex interplay between innat...