background: this cross-sectional study was conducted to compare the cost-effectiveness of three therapeutic methods of long-term hemodialysis, kidney transplant from a living person and kidney transplant from a cadaver utilizing disability adjusted life years (daly) using data from the records of patients referred to afzalipour hospital of kerman in 2012.   methods: this cross-sectional study u...

conclusions in the iranian population of organ transplantation polypharmacy should be based on a rational basis of scheduled therapeutic drug monitoring. to confirm the presence of a correlation between prograf levels with early or late rejection, nephrotoxicity or neurotoxicity, further studies in a greater number of liver recipients are recommended. patients and methods based on a cross-secti...

background hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection still exists as a health concern among the transplant patients. because of the severity of the disease, different responses to treatment, and side effects resulting from long therapeutic period, determination of genotypes and viral loads can help choose the best treatment protocols. objectives this study aimed to determine the hcv genotypes and its d...

background bk virus (bkv) belongs to the human polyomaviridae and the primary bkv infection is occurred during childhood then the virus could be latent through life, especially in the kidneys and urinary system. it became reactive after an immunocompromised status, such as pregnancy or transplantation. isolated bkv from different locations of the world is grouped into four subtypes using serolo...

One of the most important issues in area of health and hygiene is location-allocation of organ harvesting centers and transplant centers according to coordination between supply and demand. In this paper, a mathematical model is presented for location-allocation of organ harvesting centers and transplant centers. The proposed model does not only minimize the present value of the total system co...

background: today, liver transplantation is a routine procedure in the treatment of patients with end stage liver disease and its survival rate is high. in order to promote health, nurses and other health care professionals need to discover the meanings of lived experiences after liver transplantation. it is important for nurses to know what patients really experience; appropriate nursing inter...

human cytomegalovirus (hcmv, cmv) is a major infectious complication of renal transplantation. the objective of this survey was to optimize and establish a polymerase chain reaction (pcr) technique for rapid and early detection of cmv disease in renal transplant recipients. in a cross sectional study, a total of eighty-one edta-blood samples were collected as simple nonrandomized (sequential) w...