Incompatible living donor kidney transplant recipients (ILDKT) have pre-existing donor-specific antibody (DSA) that, despite desensitization, may persist or reappear with resulting consequen...
To compare the infection of BK virus in the recipients of living donor(LD) kidney transplant and deceased donor(DD) kidney transplant. A total of 911 recipients who underwent kidney transp...
There is scarcity of data on the consequences coronavirus 19 (COVID-19) infections in kidney transplant recipients (KTR) from emerging countries.Here, we present a cohort study of 13 transpl...
Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) are an important cause of morbidity in the community, constituting one of the main reasons for hospitalization, and the fourth cause of healthcare-associated i...
Health information systems (HIS) are fundamental tools for the surveillance of health services, estimation of disease burden and prioritization of health resources. Several gaps in the avail...
We aimed to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis regarding the use of incretin-based therapies including dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1...
Frailty is a concept that has been mainly developed in geriatrics and it came from the need of identifying subjects at risk to develop complications when they faced a stressful event. Frail ...
Lower extremity (LE) vascular disease and adverse cardiovascular events (ACE) cause significant long-term morbidity after simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPK). This study's pur...
Despite type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) is commonly considered a detrimental factor in dialysis, its clear effect on morbidity and mortality on waitlisted patients for kidney transplant (KT) ...
Karnofsky performance status (KPS), a measure of physical frailty, predicts pre-transplant and post-transplant outcomes in liver transplantation, but has not been assessed in simultaneous li...
Acute kidney injury (AKI), characterised by fluid imbalance and overload, is prevalent in severe disease phenotypes of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The elderly immunocompromised pati...
Opportunistic viral infections cause extensive morbidity and mortality in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs). Low serum albumin levels before and after transplant have been associated with ...
People with chronic kidney disease (CKD) experience reduced quality of life (QoL) because of the high symptom and treatment burden. Limited data exist on the factors associated with overall ...
Often only CKD patients with high likelihood of genetic disease are offered genetic testing. Early genetic testing could obviate the need for kidney biopsies, allowing for adequate prognosti...
Tacrolimus is a narrow therapeutic index medication, which requires therapeutic drug monitoring to optimize dosing based on systemic exposure. MITRA microsampling offers a convenient, minima...
Evaluation of long-term efficacy and safety of various anti-hyperglycaemic agents (AHA) for glycaemic control in NODAT, in stable kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) during 1-year outpatient...
Patient portals promote self-management, but require skills with electronic health information which can be measured by a patient's eHealth literacy. We aimed to describe eHealth literacy am...
Several studies have shown that transplanting a hepatitis C virus (HCV) negative recipients with a HCV positive donor is feasible in a research setting. In February 2018 we began transplanti...
There are no studies which have compared the risk of severe Covid-19 and related mortality between transplant recipients and non-transplant patients. We enrolled two groups of patients hospi...
Low-vacuum scanning electron microscopy (LVSEM) has been reported to aid in diagnosis of renal biopsy. This study evaluated early transplant glomerulopathy in kidney transplant recipients us...
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