background chronic allograft nephropathy(can)  is one of the most common causes of chronic and end stage renal disease. it  is defined with mainly tubular atrophy and  interstitial fibrosis and no evidence of any other etiology, or functional disorder that caused at least three months after transplantation . control of risk factors (htn,dm,hlp, …) and limiting  usage of calcineurin inhibitors o...

Dogs with spontaneous lymphoma were treated with one of three aggressive treatment protocols: (1) combination chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, L-asparaginase. Oncovin#{174}, and prednisone (CLOP); (2) combination chemotherapy with nitrogen mustard, Oncovin#{174}, prednisone, 1-asparaginase, and 6-mercaptopurine (MOPA-6); or (3) MOPA-6 followed by total-body irradiation (TBI) and autologous m...

Human herpesvirus 6 activity (HHV-6) was studied in 15 allogeneic and 11 autologous marrow transplantation patients. After transplantation, HHV-6 was isolated from the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of 12 of 26 patients (6 allogeneic and 6 autologous). All isolates were variant B. Eleven of 26 and 12 of 19 patients showed salivary shedding of HHV-6 DNA before and after transplantation, resp...

Autologous bone marrow transplantation is a promising approach to the treatment of breast cancer but is at present limited to patients without bone marrow metastases. To eliminate malignant clonogenic breast cancer cells from normal human bone marrow, immunomagnetic separation has been combined with chemoseparation using 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide. Breast cancer cell lines have been mixed wi...

High-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplantation can be a rescue for patients with severe refractory systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, the procedure might have fatal complications including infections and bleeding. We report on a young female patient with SLE whose disease started in her early childhood. After many years, severe renal, neurological, and bone ma...

Results of treatment of AML have improved over the last decade. With modern remission induction chemotherapy, most patients achieve complete remission. The median remission duration is now 1 to 2 years, and a substantial fraction of patients achieve long-term disease-free survival. Bone marrow transplantation provides an improved antileukemic effect compared with chemotherapy alone, and it is t...

Dogs with spontaneous lymphoma were treated with one of three aggressive treatment protocols: (1) combination chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, L-asparaginase. Oncovin#{174}, and prednisone (CLOP); (2) combination chemotherapy with nitrogen mustard, Oncovin#{174}, prednisone, 1-asparaginase, and 6-mercaptopurine (MOPA-6); or (3) MOPA-6 followed by total-body irradiation (TBI) and autologous m...

Remodeling of the left ventricle after myocardial infarction represents a major cause of infarct-related heart failure and death. Experimental data suggest that bone marrow-derived cells may contribute to the healing of myocardial infarction. The selective intracoronary transplantation of autologous, mononuclear bone marrow cells is safe and seems to be effective under clinical conditions conce...

Chagas disease which is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi is an important cause of cardiomyopathy in Latin America. In later stages chagasic cardiomyopathy is associated with congestive heart failure which is often refractory to medical therapy. In these individuals heart transplantation has been attempted. However, this procedure is fraught with many problems attributable to the surgery...

Bone marrow transplantation is a potentially curative treatment for patients with leukemia, aplastic anemia, metabolic disorders, and immunodeficiency. One of the main problems ofthis procedure is the graftversus-host reaction induced in the recipient by the immune function of the transplanted marrow. In order to minimize the risks of graft rejection and graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), marrow...