background: cytomegalovirus (cmv), a problematic virus in solid organ transplant recipients (sotr) such as liver, can worsen overall mortality and transplant outcome, so its prevention and treatment is a key of success in such patients. this study is aimed to compare the efficacy of ganciclovir (gcv) and valganciclovir (vgc) for prevention and treatment of infection with cmv. materials and meth...

Solid organ fabrication is an ultimate goal of Regenerative Medicine. Since the introduction of Tissue Engineering in 1993, functional biomaterials, stem cells, tunable microenvironments, and high-resolution imaging technologies have significantly advanced efforts to regenerate in vitro culture or tissue platforms. Relatively simple flat or tubular organs are already in (pre)clinical trials and...

PERSISTENCE of multiline age microchimerism has been shown in recipients of successful solid organ transplantation.1•2 Continuous existence for decades of a trace number of donor cells implicates long-lasting engraftment of donor hematopoietic progenitor cells originating from the transplanted organs. We have recently showed that syngeneic organ transplantation was able to protect animals from ...

Non-operative management is currently the standard of care for blunt abdominal trauma patients who sustain solid organ injuries and are hemodynamically stable. Contrast pooling on imaging means active bleeding and the failure rate of non-operative management is high. Here, we describe a 65 year-old woman who sustained concomitant blunt hepatic and splenic injuries with simultaneous contrast poo...