Kidneys for transplant

Kidney transplant failure: failing kidneys, failing care?

Kidney transplant failure is an important cause of dialysis initiation in the United States. In 2011, this group represented 4.7% of patients new to dialysis, a 30% increase in the number of patients initiating dialysis after transplant failure since 2000 (1). Improvements in short-term kidney allograft survival have surpassed improvements in long-term graft survival (2). Therefore, the transpl...

Transplant Surgeons can Xenograft Kidneys from untreated Pigs without Rejection

essential for survival of virus infections, and protects, imperfectly, against autoimmune disease [4]. In a famous experiment Zinkernagel and Doherty [5] found that a cell infected by a virus extrudes a viral peptide on to its surface histocompatibility antigens, where it can be attacked by a complementary cytotoxic T cell clone, if one exists. As shown in Tables 1, the explosive speed of viral...

'Bench' MRI before transplant on harvested kidneys: a possible tool for diagnosis of acute pyelonephritis.

We present the first case in which magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been utilized to rule out lesions compatible with acute pyelonephritis in kidneys from a cadaveric organ donor before transplanting them. A 40-year-old female underwent diagnosis of brain death following a septic shock. The ecotomography of the kidneys showed areas compatible with micro-abscesses raising the hypothesis of a...

Kidneys for cash and egg safaris--can we allow 'transplant tourism' to flourish in South Africa?

Rituximab Is Indispensable for Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients Developing Post transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders

Abstract Rituximab, an anti-CD20 agent, has been suggested as an effective strategy to deal with post transplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLD). In the current study, we aim to evaluate the efficacy of rituximab therapy in heart transplant population developing PTLD. A comprehensive search of the literature was performed to gather the available data on lymphoproliferative disorders oc...