background: monitoring of phenotypic characteristics of t-lymphocytes in peripheral blood is commonly performed to give the clinical parameters in the management of kidney transplant recipients.   objective: to predict rejection in renal transplantation by immune parameters. methods: 16 non-diabetic kidney transplant candidates (4 females and 12 males, age = 20-65 yr, first time transplant) wer...

background and objective: cystinosis is a rare inherited disease that leads to renal failure. fanconi syndrome is the major renal involvement in cystinosis patients. renal transplantation is the treatment of choice in cystinosis children with end-stage renal disease (esrd).  the study aimed to assess the outcome of renal transplantation in iranian children with cystinosis. methods: this retrosp...

background: cytomegalovirus (cmv) disease is an important cause of death and possibly transplant rejection in kidney transplant (kt) patients. this study was conducted to investigate the incidence and risk factors of cmv disease in kidney transplant patients. methods: all end-stage renal disease (esrd) patients who underwent kidney transplantation during 1998-2014 and their donors were assessed...

conclusions graft failure is more likely to occur in patients with higher serum creatinine levels. results there was a positive association between the serum creatinine level and graft failure (hr = 5.13, p < 0.001). a one unit increase in the serum creatinine level suggests an increased risk of graft failure of up to 5.13 times. the serum creatinine level significantly decreased over time (95%...

Background and Objective: Some neurologic complications may be detected after renal transplantation in children including tremor, peripheral neuropathy, altered level of consciousness and seizure. The aim of our study was to detect the prevalence of seizure after renal transplantation and its risk factors in pediatric age groups. Methods:&nbsp;In this descriptive study, 102 patients 5-14 yea...

Kidney transplantation in patients with end stage renal disease is preferred to dialysis because transplantation provides a better quality of life andimproved survival. However, the gap between the supply and demand for a renal allograft is widening and the waiting time is increasing. Iranian protocol, a controlled transplant program supported by the government for living unrelated donors, was ...

Kidney International Supplements (2011) 1, 1 1 Carmine Zoccali1 and Gerard London2 1EURECA-m Chair, Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit and CNR-IBIM Clinical Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, Reggio Calabria, Italy and 2ERA–EDTA President and EURECA-m Board Member, INSERM U970, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Correspondence: Carmine ...

background: it has been shown that serum total homocysteine (hc) is a risk factor for vascular disease which characterizes endothelial damage in the general and in the end-stage renal disease (esrd) population as well. whether n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids decrease homocysteine (hcy) level has been a subject of controversy. methods: renal transplant patients were randomized in 2 groups and re...

the relation between microchimerism and allograft tolerance is still a mystery. in this study we determined the presence of peripheral blood microchimerism (pbmc) in female renal transplant recipients from living male donors with second round polymerase chain reaction (pcr). second round pcr was used to find y chromocome products. the degree of pbmc in renal transplant recipinents must be below...

background acute rejection remains a major problem in renal transplantation and represents one of the most important causes of chronic allograft dysfunction and late graft loss. daclizumab is a genetically engineered human igg1 monoclonal antibody that binds specifically to the α chain of the interleukin-2 receptor, and may thus reduce the risk of rejection after renal transplantation. objectiv...