Pieces of cardiac ventricuhu tissue of late embryonic or l-day postnatal rats, implanted beneath the kidney capsule of adult syngeneic hosts, formed viable, beating transplants. These transplants were investigated over a 40-day postoperative course. In the transplants, cellular binucleation and nuclear polyploidization occurred according to the same schedule as in the heart in situ. The composi...

The operation of combined heart-lung transplantation results in acute denervation of the heart, lungs, and airways below the level of the trachea. The bronchoconstrictor response to inhaled methacholine of 12 recipients of heart-lung transplants was compared with that of 12 recipients of heart transplants having similar medication and 12 normal subjects. The median dose of methacholine that pro...

from 1986 to 1996, 1020 renal transplants were performed at our center. the purposes of this study were. 1) to evaluate the patient and graft survival rates and 2) to see if some donors and recipient characteristics such as age, sex and relationship had any effects on graft survivals. 571 transplants were from living related donors (lrd) and 446 from living unrelated donors (lud). 65.9% of reci...

Kidney and pancreas transplantation in 2005 improved in quantity and outcome quality, despite the increasing average age of kidney graft recipients, with 56% aged 50 or older. Geography and ABO blood type contribute to the discrepancy in waiting time among the deceased donor (DD) candidates. Allocation policy changes are decreasing the median times to transplant for pediatric recipients. Overal...

OBJECTIVE To describe the incidence and nature of neurologic complications following liver transplantation. METHODS Adult patients who received liver transplants at St. James's University Hospital between September 1, 1990, and August 31, 2000, were identified. Case notes were reviewed and demographic data, details of the liver disease, neurologic complications, and discharge information were...

To the Editor: In their Perspective article, Ladin and Hanto (Aug. 15 issue)1 misrepresent the lung-allocation policy of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) by stating that candidates younger than 12 years of age are restricted to receiving lungs from donors younger than 12 years of age. In fact, within each organ procurement organization (OPO), lungs from donors younger th...

background: chronic graft versus host disease (cgvhd) is one of the most serious potential complications of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. study design and method: we analyzed the incidence of cgvhd and its associated risk factors in a group of 161 iranian recipients of hla-identical sibling transplants, with at least 90 days post-transplantation survival. in the majority of cases (n=7...

Since the first successful heart transplantation by Christian Barnard in 1967, there have been over 60 000 heart transplants performed worldwide. Around 350 paediatric heart transplants are now performed annually and approximately 10% of these are in the UK.

Embryonic rat retinae transplanted into the anterior chamber of adult rat eyes of the same or different strain survive and grow. Light and electron microscopic studies show that the transplants undergo histogenetic differentiation, resulting in the development of mature inner and outer layer neurons and Müller glial cells. Vascular connections develop between the host iris and the retinal trans...