HYPOTHESIS Donor, technical, and recipient risk factors cumulatively impact survival and health-related quality of life after liver transplantation. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Tertiary care center. PATIENTS A total of 483 adults undergoing primary orthotopic liver transplantation between January 1, 1991, and July 31, 2003. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Graft and patient survival, Karno...

In human life, organ donation and transplantation is one of the most significant importance to extend functional life support quality life. Also, this process not related exclusively medical teams, but relates general society because sources for are only due ethical legal issues. The requires consideration, it presents many challenges risks community. aim paper consider advantages It considers ...

The number of older end-stage renal disease patients being referred for kidney transplantation continues to increase. This rise is occurring alongside the continually increasing prevalence of older end-stage renal disease patients. Although older kidney transplant recipients have decreased patient and graft survival compared to younger patients, transplantation in this patient population is pur...

purpose: to report the possible transmission of zygomycetes infection by a corneal graft harvested from a donor with signs of trauma to the orbital region to a keratoconic patient who underwent deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (dalk). case report: a 19-year-old keratoconic man underwent dalk in the right eye. the corneal graft was harvested from a donor with signs of orbital trauma. on posto...

When hard tissue augmentation is scheduled as a part of an oral rehabilitation, prior to the treatment, it is important to assess if the quality of the underlying gingiva at the recipient site can support the bone grafting procedure. The most frequent complication during autologous onlay grafts are wound dehiscences in the recipient site, so the integrity of soft tissues is a basic aspect of su...

BACKGROUND Gene expression profiling of whole blood may be useful for monitoring toxicological exposure and for diagnosis and monitoring of various diseases. Several methods are available that can be used to transport, store, and extract RNA from whole blood, but it is not clear which procedures alter results. In addition, characterization of interindividual and sex-based variation in gene expr...