Psychological functioning and psychosocial issues in pediatric kidney transplant recipients

Emotional functioning, barriers, and medication adherence in pediatric transplant recipients.

OBJECTIVE This study assessed relationships among internalizing symptoms, barriers to medication adherence, and medication adherence in adolescents with solid organ transplants. METHOD The sample included 72 adolescents who had received solid organ transplants. Multiple mediator models were tested via bootstrapping methods. RESULTS Bivariate correlations revealed significant relationships b...

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...

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...

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 ...