BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Arteriovenous thigh grafts are a potential vascular access option in hemodialysis patients who have exhausted all upper-limb sites. This study compared the outcomes of thigh grafts with outcomes obtained with dialysis catheters. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS A prospective vascular access database was queried to identify 209 thigh grafts placed from Jan...

BACKGROUND To describe the causes of graft loss, patient death and survival figures in kidney transplant patients in Spain based on the recipient's age. METHODS The results at 5 years of post-transplant cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients, taken from a database on CVD, were prospectively analysed, i.e. a total of 2600 transplanted patients during 2000-2002 in 14 Spanish renal transplant uni...

background: post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders (ptld) are a complication of chronic immunosuppressive therapy in solid organ transplantation with a high mortality rate. alternative treatments such as rapamycin have been explored. methods: a detailed retrospective analysis was performed according to data collected from 13 patients with ptld. at the time of ptld diagnosis, immunosuppre...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to evaluate graft outcome of kidneys from deceased-donor pediatric donors in adult recipients, and compare it with outcomes of kidney transplants from adult donors. MATERIALS AND METHODS This historical cohort study involved 2 groups. Group 1 included 23 first kidney adult recipients who received their first renal transplant from pediatric deceased-donor donors. G...

Composite endpoints that not only encompass mortality and relapse, but other critical post-transplant events such as graft-versus-host disease, are being increasingly utilized to quantify survival without significant morbidity after allogeneic blood or marrow transplantation. High-dose, post-transplantation cyclophosphamide reduces severe graft-versus-host disease with allogeneic marrow transpl...

Dental implant survival requires the presence of peri-implant bone for complete and stable osseointegration. Grafted sinus lift procedures are predictable methods to augment deficient ridges, but may give rise complications, comorbidities, additional costs. Recent evidence showed positive outcomes graft-less technique. However, studies comparing outcome grafted still lacking. This study aims co...

BACKGROUND Delayed graft function (DGF) is a common complication of renal transplantation. The short-term consequences of DGF are well known, but the long-term relationship between DGF and patient and graft survival is controversial in the published literature. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to precisely estimate these relationships. METHODS We performed a literature searc...

PURPOSE To determine the optimal conditions for enhancing corneal allograft survival by oral immunization with donor-specific alloantigens. METHODS CB6F1 mice were orally immunized with various doses of C3H/Hej corneal epithelial and endothelial cells before receiving orthotopic C3H/Hej corneal allografts. Paraformaldehyde-fixed corneal cells were compared with viable corneal cells for their ...

After publication of this article, it has come to our attention that a few corrections had not been updated. We are publishing this erratum to highlight what has been updated from the original article. The updates are as follows:Abstract – the abstract has been updated to reflect the figures in Table 2, patient survival percentage has been updated from 52.5 % to 52.8 %. Table 2 – The P value fo...

AIMS The aims of this study were to examine the influence of advanced recipient and donor age on the long term outcome of corneal transplantation. METHODS Records of 1036 penetrating corneal grafts in recipients aged > or = 80 years at surgery (defined as the elderly subset) and 8092 donor corneas used for transplantation were obtained from the Australian Corneal Graft Register database, Kapl...