INTRODUCTION Steatotic livers have been associated with greater risk of allograft dysfunction in liver transplantation. Our aim was to determinate the prevalence of steatosis in grafts from deceased donors in Chile and to assess the utility of a protocol-bench biopsy as an outcome predictor of steatotic grafts in our transplant program. MATERIAL AND METHODS We prospectively performed protocol...

Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) is one of the frequent malignancies in pediatrics and involves bone marrow and extramedullary sites. Proptosis as extramedullary involvement of leukemia usually present in acute and chronic myeloid leukemia. It is extremely rare for ALL to present initially as proptosis.Here, a-21-month-old boy was presented with proptosis without any associated symptoms except ...

Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) and/or plasmapheresis (PP) are effective in preventing antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) of kidney allografts, but AMR is still a problem. This study reports our experience in living donor renal transplantation in highly sensitized patients. Ten patients with positive crossmatch tests or high levels of panel-reactive antibody (PRA) were included. Eight patients...

conclusion we believe that active briefing of patients who need to undergo neck and bone biopsies and have high anxiety score by healthcare personnel is an effective method to control psychological mood and increase the efficiency of treatment. background ultrasound-guided biopsy procedures are the most prominent methods that increase the trauma, stress and anxiety experienced by the patients. ...

background and objective: glumerular diseases are among the most prevalent causes of renal chronic insufficiencies. this study aimed to analyze the prevalence of various kinds of glumerulonephritis based on the findings of electron microscope. materials and methods: this study had a descriptive retrospective and cross sectional strategy. slides of patients (124 cases) who had undergone kidney b...

Abstract Image-guided core-needle breast and axillary biopsy (CNB) is the standard-of-care procedure for diagnosis of cancer. Although risks CNB are low, most common complications include bleeding hematoma formation. Post-procedural particular concern in patients taking antithrombotic therapy, but there currently no widely established standard protocol United States to guide therapy management....

OBJECTIVE To determine the diagnostic yield achieved with the application of current recommendations for evaluating patients with suspected interstitial lung disease (ILD) and the procedures that must be applied to reach a definitive diagnosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS Over a 10-year period, 500 consecutive patients attending an ILD outpatient clinic who showed features of diffuse lung involvemen...

BACKGROUND The histological diagnosis of prostate cancer requires a prostate needle biopsy. Little is known about the relationship between information provided to prepare men for transrectal ultrasound guided biopsy (TRUS-Bx) and how men experience biopsy. The objectives were a) to understand men's experiences of biopsy as compared to their expectations; and b) to propose current evidence-based...

The objective of this study was to analyze factors that are involved in the progression of renal allograft damage in the first 6 mo after transplantation. Donor and 6-mo protocol biopsies of 83 patients who received a renal transplant were classified using the Chronic Allograft Damage Index (CADI). Histologic changes were compared and correlated to clinical parameters at transplantation, at 6 m...

The management of hereditary diffuse-type gastric cancer revolves around surveillance biopsies and the timing of prophylactic gastrectomy. In the absence of a validated surveillance biopsy protocol, we modeled bioptic diagnostic yield on the basis of the topographic distribution of cancer foci in a series of 10 gastrectomies in CDH1-mutation carriers. Complete histologic examination was perform...