nuclear medicine imaging is routinely used for evaluation of perfusion and function of the transplanted kidneys. at present, the radiopharmaceutical of choice for this study in our center is tc 99m-ec. complications of the kidney graft are demonstrable in the early and delayed images. one of these complications is vesicoureteral reflux to the graft or to the native kidneys. we present a 27 year...

BACKGROUND Brain death and cold preservation are major alloantigen-independent risk factors for transplantation outcome. The present study was conducted to assess the influence of these factors on transplantation-associated injury independently or in combination. METHODS Brain death was induced in F344 rats. Renal grafts were harvested after 6 hr and either directly transplanted in unilateral...

Renal failure is treated by dialysis or renal transplantation. Renal transplantation has become the treatment of choice for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) because of long-term survival and improved life quality in cases when transplantation is performed instead of hemodialysis.1-3 The most frequent renal transplantation complications are the following: renal and perirenal fluid collections, dec...

Introduction Our study objective was to analyze the optimum conditions for pregnancy in kidney transplanted women. For that, we conducted a retrospective study was from 1992 to April 2011 about 17 pregnancies in 12 kidney transplanted patients followed in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Organ Transplant Unit of the Military Hospital of Tunis. Methods We studied nephrological p...

Serum concentrations of apolipoprotein(a) [apo(a)], the unique glycoprotein of lipoprotein(a), are increased in patients with end-stage renal failure. We prospectively studied serum apo(a) and other lipoproteins in 20 consecutive patients, ages 46 +/- 11 years, before and for six months after successful renal transplantation. All patients received cyclosporine, and no patient was treated for hy...

Cold preservation has greatly facilitated the use of cadaveric kidneys for transplantation but damage occurs during the preservation episode. It is well established that oxidant production increases during cold renal preservation and mitochondria are a key target for injury. Our laboratory has demonstrated that cold storage of renal cells and rat kidneys leads to increased mitochondrial superox...

Loss of hearing is a known problem in patients with chronic renal failure, occurring in 40-XO% of cases and being most often of the high frequency sensorineural type. We performed a study on 50 patients with this disease, including 20 who had undergone a successful kidney transplantation. Our results show an 80% incidence of hearing loss in these patients and a chance of improvement in at l...

Renal transplantation is the most common procedure in solid organ transplantation. Compered to dialysis, renal offers better quality of life and overall survival for patients. Due improvement surgical technique, imunosupressive therapy medical monitor-ing general, outcome treatment has significantly improved today. The importance anesthesiologists correct performance all procedures during this ...

BACKGROUND More than 20,000 candidates for kidney transplantation in the United States are sensitized to HLA and may have a prolonged wait for a transplant, with a reduced transplantation rate and an increased rate of death. One solution is to perform live-donor renal transplantation after the depletion of donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies. Whether such antibody depletion results in a survival...