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...

Towards cross-modal organ translation and segmentation: A cycle- and shape-consistent generative adversarial network.

Synthesized medical images have several important applications. For instance, they can be used as an...

Elevated α-Fetoprotein in the Absence of Carcinoma Caused by Relapse of Hepatitis C Viral Infection after Liver Transplantation.

We report a rare case of marked elevation of α-fetoprotein in the absence of hepatocellular carcinom...

Factors involved in phenoconversion of CYP3A using 4β-hydroxycholesterol in stable kidney transplant recipients.

BACKGROUND: Phenoconversion is a phenomenon whereby some genotypic extensive metabolizers transientl...

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...

Indocyanine Green as a Beacon Light in Laparoscopy: A New Application in Transplant Surgery: A Case Report.

INTRODUCTION: Indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence imaging system is a now a consolidated complement...

Influence of Pre-renal Transplant Secondary Hyperparathyroidism on Later Evolution After Transplantation.

Persistence of secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) is common after renal transplantation. Good diag...

Analysis of Kidney Donation and Its Relationship With Graft Failure of the Recipient at 1 Year.

INTRODUCTION: Currently, the shortage of organs available for kidney transplantation and a change in...

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 ...

Neural network analysis of sleep stages enables efficient diagnosis of narcolepsy.

Analysis of sleep for the diagnosis of sleep disorders such as Type-1 Narcolepsy (T1N) currently req...

Effect of inter-individual variability in human liver cytochrome P450 isozymes on cyclophosphamide-induced micronucleus formation.

We investigated the relationship between metabolic activities of cytochrome P450 (CYP) isozymes pres...

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...

Deep Semantic Segmentation of Kidney and Space-Occupying Lesion Area Based on SCNN and ResNet Models Combined with SIFT-Flow Algorithm.

Renal segmentation is one of the most fundamental and challenging task in computer aided diagnosis s...

Choline: The Underconsumed and Underappreciated Essential Nutrient.

Choline has been recognized as an essential nutrient by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National...

Tacrolimus Suppositories in Therapy-Resistant Ulcerative Proctitis.

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

Response to Barry re: Learning Curves and Timing of Surgical Trials: Robotic Kidney Transplantation with Regional Hypothermia by Ahlawat et al. (From: Barry JM. J Endourolo 2018;32:1166; DOI: 1089/end.2018.0419).

Predictable and precise template-free CRISPR editing of pathogenic variants.

Following Cas9 cleavage, DNA repair without a donor template is generally considered stochastic, het...