BACKGROUND To decrease allograft rejection as a result of non-adherence to immunosuppressant therapy (IST), a valid and reliable instrument that measures solid organ transplant patients' adherence barriers is needed. METHODS An immunosuppressant therapy barrier scale (ITBS) was developed to assess transplant patients' perceived barriers to IST adherence and was completed by 222 transplant pat...

Digital microfluidics (DMF) driven by electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) has recently been attracting great attention as an effective liquid-handling platform for on-chip cooling. It enables rapid transportation of coolant liquid sandwiched between two parallel plates and drop-wise thermal rejection from a target heating source without additional mechanical components such as pumps, microchann...

The results of this study reveal a strong linear correlation (R(2) = 0.95) between the rejections of boron and N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) by six different reverse osmosis (RO) membranes, suggesting that boron can be used as a surrogate for NDMA rejection. This proposal is based on the premise that the rejection of both boric acid and NDMA is governed by steric hindrance and that they have si...

Interpolated band stop FIR filters are excluded. A block diagram of an interpolated filter for odd spectral regions is proposed. The use the proposed maximum allowable value coefficient in comparison with reference calculated by classical method, namely quantitative limitation to computing resource. For structure, relations obtained determine computational efficiency and increase number registe...

introduction: due to its immunosuppressive properties, local graft irradiation (lgi) has been proposed as a second line therapy for treatment of acute kidney rejection. case presentation: in this case-series we report 6 patients with biopsy proven acute kidney allograft rejection refractory to conventional antirejection therapy who underwent lgi for treatment of acute rejection at our center. t...

introduction epithelial rejection typically begins in a linear pattern from the periphery of the graft and progresses centripetally. here in, we reported a patient with a new presentation of corneal epithelial graft rejection. case presentation a 23-year-old man presented with blurred vision two months after penetrating keratoplasty. conclusions slit lamp examination revealed sharply demarcated...

In this paper, the removal of phenol by using aqueous solution in a low pressure reverse osmosis membrane was investigated. The effect of feed pressure, feed concentration, feed flow rate and feed pH on phenol rejection was investigated. The results showed that feed pH is the most affective parameter on the phenol rejection. Rejection of phenol increased with increasing pH from 2 to 10 under th...

dendritic cells (dcs) are a heterogeneous family of professional apcs involved in priming adaptive immune responses. donor dcs (direct pathway of allorecognition) and recipient dcs presenting processed donor major histocompatibility complex (mhc) as peptides (indirect pathway of allorecognition) participate actively in graft rejection by stimulating recipient t cell responses following organ tr...

conclusions patients’ experiences of stigma and rejection phenomena indicated that all aspects of their lives are affected. moreover, these findings highlight the significance of stigma and rejection concepts in providing better care to these patients. results after analysis of interviews, four themes were extracted: lack of social support, unrealistic and inappropriate labeling, rejection and ...