transplant recipients in the fi rst year post-transplant are infection and rejection. Over time, transplant coronary artery disease (a form of chronic rejection) and malignancy (resulting from inadequate immune surveillance of cancer cells) emerge as threats. Balancing immune response is one of the most serious challenges for the transplant cardiologist: over-immunosuppression results in an inc...

Traumatic experiences are not unusual in pediatric heart transplant (HT) recipients before and after transplantation. Post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) present at the time of transplant evaluation and developing afterward occur with an unknown frequency. We sought to determine the burden of these symptoms in heart transplant patients. We reviewed 51 consecutive HTs between 2003-2007, includ...

Zygomycosis is a fulminant infection which usually afflicts patients who are immunocompromised by diabetes mellitus, malignancy or immunosuppressive therapy.l This disease is a rare but highly invasive fungal infection which occurs in organ transplant recipients. 2 Mucormycosis confined to the gastrointestinal tract is an uncommon form of the disease. accounting for only seven percent of al...

OBJECTIVES We sought to study the prevalence, risk factors, and long-term prognosis of posttransplant diabetes mellitus. MATERIALS AND METHODS We studied all patients with end-stage renal disease without diabetic nephropathy who received a kidney transplant and were followed-up at our center since 1983 (n=218; age, 44.3 ± 13.1 y). Patients with new-onset diabetes after transplant were compare...