Transplantation

Hyperbaric oxygen with cord blood transplants: Filling the donor gap.

Aljitawi OS, Paul S, Ganguly A, Lin TL, Ganguly S, Vielhauer G, Capitano ML, Cantilena A, Lipe B, Mahnken JD, Wise A, Berry A, Singh AK, Shune L, Lominska C, Abhyankar S, Allin D, Laughlin M, McGuirk JP, Broxmeyer HE. (Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy; Hematology and Transplantation Translational Research Laboratory ; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas...

Impact of preformed donor-specific antibodies against HLA class I on kidney graft outcomes: Comparative analysis of exclusively anti-Cw anti-A and/or -B antibodies.

AIM: To analyze the clinical impact of preformed antiHLA-Cw antiHLA-A and/or -B donor-specific antibodies (DSA) in kidney transplantation.

Stabilization of estimated glomerular filtration rate in kidney transplantation from deceased donors with acute kidney injuries.

AIM: To evaluate and compare the outcomes of kidney transplant (KT) from deceased donors among standard criteria, acute kidney injury (AKI) and expand...

A case series of the safety and efficacy of testosterone replacement therapy in renal failure and kidney transplant patients.

BACKGROUND: Hypogonadism is common in patients with renal dysfunction and does not always correct following transplantation. Recent studies show incre...

Living donor liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma in Seoul National University.

BACKGROUND: Liver transplantation is an effective treatment modality for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Due to deceased organ shortage, living donor ...

Antiphospholipid Syndrome with Antiβ2glicoprotein-1 Antibodies as the Cause of Recurrent Tibial Vein Thrombosis in SAPHO syndrome.

The antiphospholipid antibody syndrome is defined by the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies in patients with recurrent venous or arterial thrombo...

Retzius Space Preservation Technique for Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy in a Kidney Transplant Patient: First Case in Thailand and Our First Experience.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this work was to report our experience in robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy for the treatment of localized pro...

Nanoparticle-mediated arresten gene inhibits neointimal formation of vein grafts: an experimental research.

BACKGROUND: Recently, we established a new rat model of venous arterialization by grafting the jugular vein into carotid arteries. In many respects, t...

Fabrication, Characterization, and Hemocompatibility Investigation of Polysulfone Grafted With Polyethylene Glycol and Heparin Used in Membrane Oxygenators.

Polysulfone (PSF) was grafted chemically with polyethylene glycol (PEG) of different molecular weights (400, 2000, 10 000, and 20 000) and heparin to ...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Comparing Cadaveric Liver Transplant and Non-Transplant Surgical Patients.

Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a frequent complication in intensive care surgical patients, particularly those with high severity scores on admiss...

Antioxidant and hepatoprotective activities of Dicoma anomala Sond. aqueous root extract against carbon tetrachloride-induced liver damage in Wistar rats.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluates the antioxidant and hepatoprotective potentials of Dicoma anomala Sond. (Asteraceae) on body weight, feed and water intake, bi...

Commentary on Robotic Follicular Unit Graft Selection.

Robotic Follicular Unit Graft Selection.

BACKGROUND: The use of robotic technology to harvest grafts in a follicular unit extraction (FUE) hair transplant procedure has been available since 2...

Parsing Based on Parselets: A Unified Deformable Mixture Model for Human Parsing.

Human parsing, namely partitioning the human body into semantic regions, has drawn much attention recently for its wide applications in human-centric ...

Effects of Phenylglyoxal and N-ethylmaleimide Concentration on Mycophenolic Acid Production by ATCC16024.

Mycophenolic acid is a secondary extracellular metabolite of strains with numerous pharmaceutical properties such as antibiotic and immunosuppressive...

[Stability of high-dose etoposide dilutions for use in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation conditioning regimens].

High-dose etoposide is used in conditioning regimens for allogeneic stem cell transplantation. The limited stability of the drug induces barriers for ...

Accidental Overdose of Oral Cyclosporine in Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Case Report and Literature Review.

A 26-year-old woman developed symptoms of acute toxicity during cyclosporine (CsA) therapy for graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis. The standard reg...

[Analysis of Cases with Elevated Blood (1->3)-β-D-glucan in Relation to an Infection Marker, Neutrophil CD64 Expression].

(1->3)-β-D-glucan (BDG) is a constituent of the fungal cell wall and its blood level is known as a marker of fungal infection including pneumocystis p...

A Prototype for a Hybrid System to Support Systematic Review Teams: A Case Study of Organ Transplantation.

We describe a prototype for a hybrid system designed to reduce the number of citations needed to re-screen (NNRS) by systematic reviewers, where citat...

[Analysis of risk factors for prognosis of patients with acute paraquat intoxication].

OBJECTIVE: To explore the risk factors influencing the prognosis by analyzing clinical data of patients with acute paraquat intoxication, and to asses...