Fetal Allograft Survival in Immunocompetent

Routes to allograft survival.

Why is the fetal allograft not rejected?

In viviparous species, the conceptus must be protected from a potentially hostile maternal immune system. The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a genetic region that encodes MHC class I and class II proteins, which present peptide antigens to T lymphocytes and induce graft rejection. The MHC, class II proteins are only expressed on professional, antigen-presenting cells. However, classi...

Size matters in renal allograft survival.

1490 –1494, 2004 6. Kootstra G, van Heurn E: Non-heartbeating donation of kidneys for transplantation. Nat Clin Pract Nephrol 3: 154–163, 2007 7. Singh RP, Farney AC, Rogers J, Zuckerman J, Reeves-Daniel A, Hartmann E, Iskandar S, Adams P, Stratta RJ: Kidney transplantation from donation after cardiac death donors: Lack of impact of delayed graft function on post-transplant outcomes. Clin Trans...

patient survival in renal allograft failure: a time-dependent analysis

patients and methods this retrospective cohort study included 405 renal transplant patients from kerman university of medical sciences hospital, kerman, iran from 2004 to 2010. kaplan-meier method was used to estimate survival rates of patients, and time-dependent cox regression was used to examine the effect of allograft failure on patient survival. results during 4.06 years (median) of follow...

Fetal survival--who decides?

In this paper Iain McFadyen highlights a modern ethical dilemma. In each case the fetus was recognised to be in danger, but in both cases the advice given in the fetal interest was refused by the mothers. Both the mother and the physician were concerned for the fetus, but their differing actions and reasons pose the dilemma--who decides?