The concept of high-urgency (HU) renal transplantation was introduced in order to offer to patients, who are not able to undergo long-term dialysis treatment, a suitable renal graft in a short period of time, overcoming by this way the obstacle of the prolonged time spent on the waiting list. The goal of this study was to evaluate the patient and graft survivals after HU renal transplantation a...

Polyoma virus nephropathy occurs in 3% to 4% of renal transplant recipients, causing graft loss in 50% of cases. The objective of the present study was to explore the effects of age, sex, post-transplantation period and plasma creatinine levels on the polyoma virus infection in kidney transplanted patients. Urine samples were collected from 362 patients, centrifuged and microscopic slides prepa...

To the Editor—Pneumocystis jirovecii is a well-described opportunistic pathogen in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, but it is less commonly associated with pneumonia in other states of immunocompromise. However, outbreaks of P. jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) have been described in renal transplant recipients in both Europe and Asia [1–3]. Explanations for this, including the possible mo...

Plasma levels of 1,5-anhydro-D-glucitol (AG) were measured in non-diabetic patients with renal failure or following renal transplant. For patients with renal failure (n = 20) from various causes, the plasma level of AG was found to be positively associated with urate and negatively with both urea and prior dialysis. The results for seven renal transplant recipients, serially assessed during the...

Kidney transplantation is associated with lower risk for infection than other solid organ transplantations, reflecting the elective nature of kidney transplantation and clinical and nutritional status of recipients. Infection, however, remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in renal transplant recipients. Infections related to transplant surgical complications, acquisition of he...

Malignancies following transplantation are more aggressive and developed at a more advanced stage than those in patients without transplants, and represent a significant cause of patient death following kidney transplantation. Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most common urologic cancer in both native and transplanted kidneys among kidney recipients. RCC in the transplanted kidney can occur ei...

Introduction:Detecting renal allograft dysfunction early will allow timely diagnosis and treatment. There is no objective recommendation by national kidney societies for glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) estimation in post-transplant setting. 99mTc-DTPA Technetium-99m Diethylene triamine penta acetic acid) renogram can identify early renal dysfunction much before ser...

Cyclosporin A has proved to be a valuable drug both in the prevention of graft rejection after solid organ transplantation' and in the prevention of graft versus host disease after bone marrow transplantation.2 Caine et al treated the first cadaver renal allograft recipients with cyclosporin A in 1978,3 and toxicity due to the drug was noted soon afterwards. The adverse effects in transplant re...