RENAL TRANSPLANTATION – AN EARLY EXPERIENCE

Early experience with anti-Tac in clinical renal transplantation.

T H E SEARCH for more effective and Jess broadly toxic immunosuppressive agents remains a major goal of transplantation research. One approach to achieving more specific immunosuppression is to target only those lymphocytes responding to an allograft by directing therapy at activation antigens. Of these antigens, the interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R) has proven of particular interest, both because...

Renal transplantation under FK 506 in African-Americans: early experience.

Pediatric renal transplantation--Indian experience.

OBJECTIVE To analyze our experience with renal transplantation in children with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in India. DESIGN Retrospective study. METHODS Over the last 7.5 years, 27 renal transplants were performed on children below 12 years of age, 8 children were less than 6 years old, 19 were between 6 and 12 years of age. Sixteen children had underlying glomerular disease while eleve...

Ureteric complications following renal transplantation: an eight years experience.

OBJECTIVES Ureteric complications (UCs) following renal transplantation (RT) cause significant morbidity and ureteric stents are employed to bridge the vesico-ureteric anastomosis with a view to preventing these complications. The purpose of this study was to examine the incidence of UCs and outcomes following RT in both stented (STG) and non-stented groups (NSTG) of RT patients. METHODS This...

An early experience of liver transplantation in portal vein thrombosis.

Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is a recognised complication of end-stage liver disease. As PVT is a relative contraindication to liver transplantation, potential candidates are often rejected due to increased risk and complexity of the surgical procedure. Thromboendovenectomy is a commonly-used technique for this vexing problem. We report a surgeon's experience of dealing with PVT at the time of ...