BACKGROUND The present study was designed to characterize early structural changes of large arteries in renal transplant recipients with no clinical evidence of cardiovascular disease and normal blood pressure values, and to analyse the relationship between arterial alterations and those of the heart. METHODS Intima media thickness and atherosclerotic plaques of the carotid arteries as well a...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The leading cause of death in solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients is infection. The respiratory viruses, particularly respiratory syncytial virus, influenza, parainfluenza, adenovirus, and picornaviruses, are increasingly recognized as significant pathogens in these populations. RECENT FINDINGS Respiratory syncytial virus has again been found to be ...

Infections are a significant cause of morbidity in the form graft loss and mortality Renal Transplant Recipients (RTR). Several factors pre peri-transplant period increase susceptibility to Post (PTI), affecting overall patient survival.

Urine cytology often is used to identify BK virus in kidney transplant recipients in the cytology laboratory. To assess the usefulness of the shell vial cell culture assay to identify BK virus, urine samples from 42 kidney transplant recipients were tested by the urine cytology and shell vial cell culture assays. The shell vial cell culture assay is just as sensitive and specific as urine cytol...

OBJECTIVE To assess the clinicopathologic features of basal cell carcinomas developing in organ transplant recipients. DESIGN Case series. SETTING University department of dermatology. PATIENTS One hundred forty-six (7.2%) of 2029 transplant recipients followed up in our department who developed 176 histologically proven basal cell carcinomas. One hundred fifty-three random samples of bas...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to assess the incidence of transplant coronary artery disease (CAD) in Chinese heart recipients. BACKGROUND The prevalence of transplant CAD detected by angiography at 1, 2 and 4 years after heart transplantation was 11%, 22% and 45%, respectively. The incidence of transplant CAD in Chinese heart recipients has not been reported. METHODS For those recipients sur...

The efficacy and safety of valganciclovir (VGCV) for cytomegalovirus (CMV) prophylaxis in liver transplant recipients has not been established. We retrospectively compared the efficacy and safety of low-dose oral VGCV (450 mg once daily for 90 days) and standard oral ganciclovir (1 g three times a day for 90 days, GCV) in preventing CMV disease in 109 adult liver transplant recipients who survi...

BACKGROUND Liver or kidney transplant recipients are at a higher risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) than general population. We aimed to clarify the incidence density of and risk factors for TB in liver or kidney transplant recipients in the present study. METHODS All patients with TB following liver or kidney transplantation were investigated retrospectively at the Third Xiangya Hospital, ...

Abstract Background and Aims Bone disease post-transplantation is a major cause of morbidity in kidney transplant (KT) recipients, with significantly higher risk fractures mortality. This study investigated the added value calculated 10-year fracture for osteoporotic (MOF) hip by frax score an assessment factors KT recipients. Methods A cross-sectional included 71 live-related Demographic, clin...

Previously, we have reported the results of our retrospective study on the effect of HLA class II allele matching on the outcome of corneal transplant. Here, we demonstrate our findings of the study for HLA class I allele matching in the same study subjects. Eighty transplant recipients were typed for HLA-A, and 79 transplant recipients were typed for HLA-B alleles, by PCR-SSOP. The association...