there had been few if any study for second pancreas transplant outcome and consequences in patients with simultaneous kidney pancreas transplant after failure of the first pancreas allograft. the aim of this study was to compare the patient and graft survival and clinical outcomes and complication of the second pancreas transplant in patients with simultaneous kidney pancreas, compared with pan...

background hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection is one the major health concern among the infected transplant patients. considering several complications of the disease in them, pre and post-transplantation studies should be performed for monitoring of the infection, as well as, developing new treatment protocols. objectives the current study was conducted to determine the hepatitis c virus rna le...

The interplay of legal systems has existed for thousands years. In the contemporary context, globalization promotes interaction between systems. Legal comparatists have long developed “legal transplant” theory to investigate foreign borrowing cases. However, scholars not looked into this phenomenon in Vietnam thoroughly. article introduces theoretical framework transplant. It then considers pra...

Renal transplantation is considered one of the best long-term therapies for chronic renal failure, but unfortunately the incidence of malignancy significantly increases in renal transplant recipients. We analyzed nine cases of malignancy in 200 renal transplant recipients occurring in a 12-year follow-up in Imam hospital of Tehran University, Tehran, Iran. According to this study, the organ...

The goals of post-transplant management are to manage and treat postoperative complications, and develop a balanced long-term immunotherapy regimen that minimizes infection and side effects but controls rejection. While modern immunosuppressant regimes have reduced rates of graft loss due to rejection, they impart major risks for infection, growth failure, metabolic complications, and malignanc...

results 34 (34%) of the renal transplant recipients and 26 (26%) of the control group were positive for anti-toxoplasma igg. in addition 18 (18%) of the renal transplant recipients and 4 (4%) of the control group were positive for anti-toxoplasma igm. for both values of the antibodies, differences were statistically significant (p < 0.025 and p < 0.001 respectively). the pcr results indicated t...

conclusions expressive emotion brief psychotherapy that focuses on the instructions of expression about one’s living and dealing with a diagnosis of chronic medical condition is recommended for kidney transplant recipients. results baseline demographic characters of patients in both groups were similar. the mean age of patients that participated in the study were respectively 39.26 ± 12.98 and ...

conclusions hrct is helpful in the diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with lung-heart transplant. methods we reviewed the data of lung-heart transplant recipients within a 5 year period at our center. the inclusion criterion was confirmed invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. demographic, clinical, radiologic and laboratory characteristics of the patients were retrieved from ...