Transplantation

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 ...

Orthotopic Liver Transplantation After Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Pediatric Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Central Biliary Obstruction and Nodal Involvement.

Here we describe the case of a 10-year-old boy with a history of chronic hepatitis B who was diagnos...

Low vitamin D at ICU admission is associated with cancer, infections, acute respiratory insufficiency, and liver failure.

OBJECTIVES: Vitamin D deficiency may be associated with comorbidities and poor prognosis. However, t...

Hypertonic Saline Modulates Heart Function and Myocardial Inflammatory Alterations in Brain-Dead Rats.

BACKGROUND: Brain death (BD) in potential organ donors is responsible for hemodynamic instability an...

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...

Compatibility of rubber stoppers for recombinant antitumor-antivirus protein injection by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

A simple, rapid, and sensitive gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) method was developed and...

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...

STRAINet: Spatially Varying sTochastic Residual AdversarIal Networks for MRI Pelvic Organ Segmentation.

Accurate segmentation of pelvic organs is important for prostate radiation therapy. Modern radiation...

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 ...

Registration-Based Organ Positioning and Joint Segmentation Method for Liver and Tumor Segmentation.

The automated segmentation of liver and tumor from CT images is of great importance in medical diagn...

Stability and Compatibility of Diphenhydramine Hydrochloride in Intravenous Admixtures: A New Look at an Old Drug.

Intravenous (IV) admixtures of diphenhydramine are widely used in hospitalized patients to prevent ...

Machine learning reveals chronic graft--host disease phenotypes and stratifies survival after stem cell transplant for hematologic malignancies.

The application of machine learning in medicine has been productive in multiple fields, but has not ...

Fully automatic multi-organ segmentation for head and neck cancer radiotherapy using shape representation model constrained fully convolutional neural networks.

PURPOSE: Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is commonly employed for treating head and nec...

Experience With Hypothermic Machine Perfusion in Expanded Criteria Donors: Functional Outcomes.

UNLABELLED: Hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) decreases delayed graft function (DGF) and improves ...

A dynamic model for predicting graft function in kidney recipients' upcoming follow up visits: A clinical application of artificial neural network.

BACKGROUND: Predicting the function of transplanted kidneys would help clinicians in individualized ...

Large-scale medical image annotation with crowd-powered algorithms.

Accurate segmentations in medical images are the foundations for various clinical applications. Adva...

Registries and artificial intelligence: investing in the future of hematopoietic cell transplantation.

Pelvic Organ Segmentation Using Distinctive Curve Guided Fully Convolutional Networks.

Accurate segmentation of pelvic organs (i.e., prostate, bladder, and rectum) from CT image is crucia...

Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth in Patients With Cirrhosis.

Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is defined by increased density and/or abnormal composi...

Minimally invasive donor nephrectomy: current state of the art.

BACKGROUND: The concept of a minimally invasive live donor nephrectomy developed over 20 years ago. ...