Since its beginning in 1954 organ transplantation has become the leading lifesaving treatment worldwide for end-stage organ failure. In the past few decades organ transplantation has become so successful that now the number of people in need of a lifesaving organ vastly outnumbers the supply of organs available. If this deficit remains unaddressed the number of people that die each day due to o...

Among patients with organ failure, vitamin D deficiency is extremely common and frequently does not resolve after transplantation. This review crystallizes and summarizes existing data on the status quo of vitamin D deficiency in patients with organ failure and in solid organ transplant recipients. Interventional studies evaluating different treatment strategies, as well as current clinical pra...

μalakoplakia is a rare inflammatory condition of the urogenital tract. the most frequently affected organ is urinary bladder. this condition has features of a granulomatous inflammation, the pathogenesis of which is not well understood. in this study, we presented a case of urinary bladder malakoplakia associated with advanced obstructive uropathy and renal failure.

BACKGROUND Pyogenic tonsillitis may often be observed in the general Western population. In severe cases, it may require antibiotic treatment or even hospitalization and often a prompt clinical response will be noted. Here we present an unusual case of progressive multiple organ failure including fulminant liver failure following acute tonsillitis initially mistaken for "classic" pyogenic (that...

OBJECTIVE To determine the predictors of outcome in cardiac surgical patients with prolonged ICU stay. DESIGN Inception cohort with retrospective chart review. SETTING Adult cardiovascular ICU. PATIENTS All patients admitted after cardiac surgery who stayed in ICU for at least 14 consecutive days. INTERVENTIONS Collection of data, including preoperative demographics, comorbidity, routin...

vitamin e is a potent reactive oxygen metabolites (rom) scavenger. it is a lipid-soluble vitamin and its main function is to protect polyunsaturated fatty acids against oxidative stress. twenty-five mechanically ventilated intensive care unit (icu) adult patients participated in a prospective randomized clinical trial receiving either placebo (10 patients) or 3 im doses (1000 iu each) of vitami...

INTRODUCTION Organ dysfunction or failure after the first days of ICU treatment and subsequent mortality with respect to the type of intensive care unit (ICU) admission is poorly elucidated. Therefore we analyzed the association of ICU mortality and admission for medical (M), scheduled surgery (ScS) or unscheduled surgery (US) patients mirrored by the occurrence of organ dysfunction/failure (OD...

in order to examine the effect of the quantity of nitrogen fertilizer and bush density on vegetative and productive function of henna medicinal plant (lawsonia inermis)  factorial experimentation in the form of block plan was carried in three stages in agriculture research center in south of kerman  province in corp of 2012. the first factor containing nitrogen fertilizer in 4 levels including ...

background: acute renal failure describes as a syndrome by rapid decline in the ability of the kidney to eliminate waste products, regulate acid–base balance, and manage water homeostasis. when this impairment is prolonged and entered chronic phase, erythropoietin secretion by this organ is decreasing and toxic metabolic accumulates and causes hematological changes include decrease of hct, mcv ...

“Transplantation” (Volume 97, Number 8, April 27, 2014) published an open letter from Professor Delmonico along with other seven professors to Mr. Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China: China’s Fight Against Corruption in Organ Transplantation. The article sharply posed this concern, thus evoking great attention at home and abroad within the transplant community. To this end, ...