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 Proteinuria is an indicator of subsequent renal function decline in most nephropathies and early proteinuria has been assumed to be a risk factor of poor kidney transplant outcomes. However, there is no information about the effect of earlier-proteinuria at the first week on short-term graft function after living donor renal transplantation. METHODS Retrospective cohort study of 43...

Background: As the rate of renal transplantation increases, more immunosuppressive drugs such as cyclosporine A (CsA) are consumed, particularly during the early months following transplantation, leading to post-transplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM) which can cause death. Objective: The present study examined the role of CsA in causing PTDM and other effect...

hypertension is a common complication of kidney transplantation with the prevalence of 80%. studies in adults have shown a high prevalence of hypertension (htn) in the first three months of transplantation while this rate is reduced to 50- 60% at the end of the first year. htn remains as a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, lower graft survival rates and poor function of transplante...

although triple (omeprazole, amoxicillin, and metronidazole) and quadruple (omeprazole, tetracycline, metronidazole, and bismuth subcitrate) therapeutic regimens for h. pylori eradication has been studied much in the general population, there is a lack of data in renal transplanted patients. so, this study aimed at comparing regimens in these patients who were considered being immunocompromised...

loss of hearing is a known problem in patients with chronic renal failure, occurring in 40-xo% of cases and being most often of the high frequency sensorineural type. we performed a study on 50 patients with this disease, including 20 who had undergone a successful kidney transplantation. our results show an 80% incidence of hearing loss in these patients and a chance of improvement in at least...

Abstract Background: Renal transplantation (RT) is the transplantation of a kidney into a patient with end-stage renal disease and has become the treatment of choice for most patients with end-stage renal disease. The knowledge of renal vascular variations is of a great importance for the surgeons who approach the kidneys from the retroperitoneal o...

BACKGROUND De novo renal carcinoma in kidney transplants is an uncommon but not exceptional condition and is of significant importance due to the potential for recipient mortality and graft loss. The aim of our study was to determine the management and outcome of these tumors in our Kidney Transplantation Unit. MATERIAL AND METHODS We analyzed cases of de novo kidney tumors among patients who...