Angiotensin II type 1 receptor antibody (AT1R-Ab) is a non-HLA antibody that has been reported to cause antibody-mediated rejection and graft loss in kidney transplantation. The prevalence o...
The study's aim was to assess whether polyomavirus DNAemia screening was associated with different outcomes in patients with positive viremia compared with negative viremia.Case-control retr...
To present details of two living-related donors and our fusion division technique, where half of the horseshoe kidney (HSK) was retrieved and transplanted.Since January 2018, 461 renal trans...
BACKGROUND A previous phase 3 clinical trial in de novo adult kidney transplant recipients (NCT01187953) compared the efficacy and safety of once-daily LCP-tacrolimus (LCPT) and twice-daily ...
Rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin (rATG) is currently the treatment of choice for glucocorticoid-resistant, recurrent, or severe acute allograft rejection (AR). However, rATG is associated with...
Certain ABO blood types have been linked to cardiovascular disease, infection and cancers. The effect of recipient ABO blood group on patient and graft survival has not been studied in ABO-m...
There is an accumulating body of literature surrounding the impact of COVID-19 infection in solid organ transplant recipients. The aim of this review is to summarize the existing literature ...
There is no consensus on immunosuppression management for kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia. Therefore, we conducted a search in English database from October 201...
The novel coronavirus disease infection (COVID-19) outbreak that was declared a global pandemic in March 2020 had led to an internationally variable but concerning incidence of COVID-associa...
Renal transplantation is the optimal treatment for end-stage renal diseases. However, low self-care ability after discharge seriously reduces the postoperative quality of life and decreases ...
Despite multiple studies assessing post-nephrectomy kidney function after nephrectomy, data and validated tools for predicting postoperative kidney function are lacking. “Clinically signif...
Most patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) who are on dialysis will need to be referred from a dialysis facility to a kidney transplant center for a medical evaluation to potentially...
Long-term kidney allograft survival remains a major clinical challenge. Recurrent glomerulonephritis disease, including recurrence of IgA nephropathy (IgAN), is a significant barrier to long...
Delayed graft function (DGF), defined as the need for dialysis in the first week after kidney transplantation, frequently complicates posttransplantation care. The most common cause of DGF i...
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is an acute neurological syndrome. There are many reports of PRES occurring in the setting of rheumatic diseases. However, it remains unce...
This registry-based study evaluated the contribution of center characteristics to kidney transplant outcomes in adult first kidney transplant recipients in Australia and New Zealand between ...
Recipient delayed graft function, which is defined as dialysis in the first week after transplantation, is one of the most common early complications after kidney transplantation. This study...
Most studies comparing the efficacy of hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) versus static cold storage (SCS) are based on short-term outcomes. We aimed to better evaluate the mid-term impact ...
Mycophenolic acid (MPA) is widely utilized as an immunosuppressant in kidney and liver transplantation, with reports suggesting an independent relationship between MPA concentrations and adv...
To compare B-flow sonography (BFS) with color Doppler sonography (CDS) for imaging of kidney transplant vascularization in children. All children receiving a kidney transplantation who ...
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