Order of Donor Type in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients Requiring Retransplantation

Aortic stiffness of kidney transplant recipients correlates with donor age.

Increased aortic stiffness is a major factor responsible for the high cardiovascular mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease, but the impact of kidney transplantation on recipient aortic stiffness remains poorly defined. The use of expanded-criteria kidney donors is associated with decreased recipient survival compared with the use of standard-criteria donors, although the underlying...

Covid-19 infection in kidney transplant recipients: a case report

[BK virus infections in pediatric kidney transplant recipients].

Primary BK virus (BKV) infections acquired mainly during childhood are usually asymptomatic. Several studies revealed its seroprevalence in adult population as high as 90% worldwide. Following primary infection, virus persists as latent infection in the urogenital tract. In renal transplant recipients, primary infection and reactivations affect 10% of patients and without treatment, more than h...

Cystatin C and renal function in pediatric kidney transplant recipients.

In clinical practice, the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is often determined with serum creatinine. However, studies have shown cystatin C to be a better parameter for the diagnosis of impaired renal function. We compared GFR estimated by plasma cystatin C with GFR estimated by serum creatinine in a sample of 50 pediatric renal transplant recipients and 24 healthy children. The correlation be...

Lymphocyte Activation Markers in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The role of CD4+CD25+ T regulatory cells (Tregs) in immune tolerance in experimental transplantation is very important but the clinical significance of circulating Tregs in the peripheral blood is undetermined. We evaluated the association between the frequency of T cell activation markers CD25 and CD71 and clinical parameters that may affect the level of these T cell ...