Transplantation

An in vitro study on oocyte and follicles of transplanted ovaries treated with vascular endothelial growth factor.

OBJECTIVE: Retrieval of high quality follicles and oocytes from transplanted ovaries is essential fo...

Analysis of Interleukin-17 mRNA Level in the Urinary Cells of Kidney Transplant Recipients with Stable Function.

OBJECTIVES: Kidney transplantation supports patients with end-stage kidney diseases. Many factors co...

Angioplasty and stenting for the proximal anastomotic stenosis of a brachio-axillary bypass graft using a helical interwoven nitinol stent: A case report.

RATIONALE: Thrombosis due to anastomotic site stenosis is the most common complication in patients w...

Selection and Short-Term Outcomes of Living Kidney Donors in Singapore - An Analysis of the Donor Care Registry.

INTRODUCTION: Transplant rates in Singapore have been falling and there is limited information on ba...

[The autologous bundled multi-segment rib graft reconstruction for bone defects after thoracic spinal tuberculosis debridement].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effectiveness of bundled multi-segment autologous rib graft reconstruc...

Machine Learning Interface for Medical Image Analysis.

TensorFlow is a second-generation open-source machine learning software library with a built-in fram...

HLA class I binding prediction via convolutional neural networks.

MOTIVATION: Many biological processes are governed by protein-ligand interactions. One such example ...

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Treatment Regimes on Medical Registry Data.

In this paper, we propose the first deep reinforcement learning framework to estimate the optimal Dy...

Robotic Renal Autotransplantation: First Case Outside of North America.

A 38-year-old woman with a 2.7-cm left ureteral stenosis requiring chronic ureteral stent exchange e...

Performance of an Artificial Multi-observer Deep Neural Network for Fully Automated Segmentation of Polycystic Kidneys.

Deep learning techniques are being rapidly applied to medical imaging tasks-from organ and lesion se...

Self-aligning exoskeleton hip joint: Kinematic design with five revolute, three prismatic and one ball joint.

Kinematic compatibility is of paramount importance in wearable robotic and exoskeleton design. Misal...

Robot-Assisted Harvesting of Kidneys for Transplantation and Global Complications for the Donor.

INTRODUCTION: Robot-assisted kidney harvesting from living donors is feasible and safe. We report th...

Robot-assisted Living-donor Left Lateral Sectionectomy.

Machine-Learning Algorithms Predict Graft Failure After Liver Transplantation.

BACKGROUND: The ability to predict graft failure or primary nonfunction at liver transplant decision...

Robotic pancreas transplantation in a type 1 diabetic patient with morbid obesity: A case report.

RATIONALE: Obesity is considered a relative contraindication to pancreas transplantation due to incr...

Soft robotic sleeve supports heart function.

There is much interest in form-fitting, low-modulus, implantable devices or soft robots that can mim...

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, Ma...

Study of The Effects of N-Acetylcysteine on Oxidative Stress Status of Patients on Maintenance-Hemodialysis Undergoing Cadaveric Kidney Transplantation.

N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is a potent antioxidant that acts through regenerating glutathione stores and...

Effect of Hypertonic Saline 5% on Early Graft Function and Urinary Interleukin 18 and Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin in Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplantation.

Ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) is one of the main causes of delayed graft function (DGF) in decea...

Preclinical Evaluation of Ga-MAA from Commercial Available Tc-MAA Kit.

Tc-Macroaggregated Albumin (Tc-MAA) has been used as a perfusion agent. This study described develop...

Pre-transplant cytomegalovirus immunoglobulin G antibody levels could prevent severe cytomegalovirus infections post-transplant in liver transplant recipients: Experience from a tertiary care liver centre.

BACKGROUND: Humoral immune responses in cytomegalovirus (CMV) are not studied well. Pre-transplant C...