Worldwide, more than 250,000 individuals who have received a liver, heart, lung, or intestinal transplant are living longer. Twenty percent to 25% of these recipients experience perioperative acute renal failure, with 10% to 15% requiring renal replacement therapy. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is also highly prevalent, affecting 30% to 50% of the nonrenal organ transplant population with an ann...

BACKGROUND Renal transplantation is recognised as being the optimal treatment modality for many patients with end stage renal disease. This analysis aimed to explore the equity of access to renal transplantation in the UK. METHODS Transplant activity and waiting list data were obtained from NHS Blood and Transplant, demographic and laboratory data were obtained from the UK Renal Registry. All...

We conducted a seroepidemiologic study to determine the prevalence of anti-human herpesvirus 8 antibodies in a renal transplant population at Hôtel-Dieu de Québec Hospital. Testing for immunoglobulin G antibodies against lytic and latent antigens was performed on serum samples from 150 renal transplant patients. Human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients with confirmed Kaposi's sarcoma were...

Marked renal swelling occurs in acute renal allograft rejection. The impaired renal function in this state could be related in part to mechanical adjustments that the renal tubular and vascular network must make as they participate in the overall expansion of renal parenchyma! volume. In the present study we examined whether vascular stretching occurs in the swollen acutely rejecting kidney. Fr...

Renal transplantation has become the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) resulting from a variety of causes. The short-term patient and graft outcomes have improved markedly over the recent years (Hariharan et al., 2000). Renal transplant recipients are subject to all those diseases which affect the general population. In addition, like all other allograft recip...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate immunoglobulin A nephropathy recurrence rate after transplant in children and adults and to identify recurrence rates by clinical progression before transplant. MATERIALS AND METHODS There were 56 patients with immunoglobulin A nephropathy who had renal transplant between 1989 and 2005. We categorized recipient age into < or ≥ 20 years a...

OBJECTIVES We report the incidence and pattern of malignancies in renal transplant recipients from our department. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between March 1983 and August 2013, the records of 2054 renal transplant recipients from our department were retrospectively reviewed with regard to type of neoplasm, age, gender, interval between the transplant and the diagnosis of malignancy, immunosuppres...

Background Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is one of the most common infectious complications in renal transplant recipients. Extensive genetic polymorphisms in envelope glycoproteins of HCMV have been demonstrated among clinical HCMV isolates. Some previous studies have proposed the potential linkage between HCMV gN genotype to the frequency of symptomatic infection and clinical outcome in renal ...

Renal lipomatosis was diagnosed in a kidney transplant recipient who presented with acute kidney injury (AKI) several years after transplantation. The patient had an odd-looking kidney transplant on ultrasound and computed tomography (CT) scan, showing a medullary mass with resultant compression of the surrounding renal parenchyma. A biopsy of the renal medulla confirmed fatty infiltration of t...