normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa microsoftinternetexplorer4 aim : the aim of this study was to describe our results and investigate the survival of below - 18 - year - old patients undergoing lrdlt and the factors affecting this. background : living related donor liver transplantation (lrdlt) has become a good option to provide suitable grafts for children with liver diseases. using t...

BACKGROUND ABO incompatible kidney transplantation (ABOi-KT) is an important approach for overcoming donor shortages. We evaluated the effect of ABOi-KT on living donor KT. METHODS Two nationwide transplantation databases were used. We evaluated the impact of ABOi-KT on overall living donor transplant activity and spousal donation as subgroup analysis. In addition, we compared the clinical ou...

BACKGROUND Kidney transplantation confers superior outcomes for patients with end stage kidney disease, and live donor kidneys associate with superior outcomes compared to deceased donor kidneys. Modern immunosuppression has improved rejection rates and transplant survival and, as a result, recurrence of glomerulonephritis has emerged as a major cause of allograft loss. However, many glomerulon...

introduction although renal transplantation from cadaver is common, living donors continue to be an important source of transplanted kidneys. recipients of living-donor kidneys demonstrate improved graft survival. in this study, we evaluated the outcomes of renal transplantation from cadaver, related donors and unrelated donors in isfahan. methods we evaluated all of the patients who underwent ...

patients and methods from march 1976 to december 2013, the number of patients that underwent living renal transplantation sharing at least one hla haplotype with their donors was 2,485. we divided these patients into two groups: (1) 2,075 kidney transplant recipients (1,554 or 74.9% male and 521 or 25.1% female) for whom the donors were living related, (2) 410 kidney transplant recipients (297 ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Rapid discontinuation of prednisone after kidney transplantation potentially allows for minimization of steroid-related side effects. Although intermediate-term data with rapid discontinuation of prednisone have been promising, concern still exists regarding long-term outcomes. The 10-year experience is reported herein. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS B...

In living donor kidney transplantation there are disproportionately more female-to-male donations and fewer male-to-female donations. Given the rapid increase in living donor transplantation, we studied gender demographics and outcomes of these transplants. We analyzed living donor kidney transplants in the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) database between 1990 and 1999. Ther...

background hospital personnel of services related to donation and transplantation process play a fundamental role in the development of transplantation. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the attitude toward living liver donation (lld) among hospital personnel from services related to donation and transplantation in hospital centers in spain and latin america. materials and met...

background in the living donor liver transplant setting, the preoperative assessment of potential donors is important to ensure the donor safety. objectives the aim of this study was to identify causes and costs of living liver-donors rejection in the donation process. materials and methods from june 2010 to june 2012, all potential living liver donors for 66 liver transplant candidates were sc...