A study in solid organ transplant recipients shows oral therapy for gram-negative bacteremia may not need to be restricted to immunocompetent individuals....
Arnold Schwarzenegger's disclosure of his recent pacemaker surgery shines a global spotlight on the procedure, potentially spurring increased demand....
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) pose a significant challenge in the care of renal transplant recipients. This comprehensive review explores this population's multifaceted landscape of UTIs, ...
Introduction The liver is the largest gland in the body and shows wide variation in surface features. Knowledge of external features is essential for radiological investigations and during a...
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a congenital malformation commonly treated with palliative surgery and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Risk stratification m...
The following is a summary of “Preoperative DLCO predicts severe early complications after liver transplantation,” published in the February 2024 issue of Pulmonology by Li et al. ...
Solid organ transplant surgeries including liver transplants constitute a substantial risk of bleeding complications and given frequent national blood shortages, supporting D-negative transp...
To evaluate the response to nifedipine administration measured by changes in hepatic arterial (HA) flow on post-operative Doppler ultrasound (US) to predict short-term complications and long...
Right ventricular ejection fraction (RVEF) and end-diastolic volume (RVEDV) are not readily assessed through traditional modalities. Deep learning-enabled ECG analysis for estimation of righ...
Advances in knowledge and techniques improved postoperative liver transplant outcomes, but optimizing re-liver transplant outcomes requires further research....
There is currently no doubt that a kidney transplant with good function is the best treatment we can offer a child with severe kidney failure, improving their growth, development and life in...
Poor CD34 + cells mobilization in allogeneic donors could affect transplant outcome. In a subgroup of patient mobilization with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) alone is unsat...
CYP2C19-guided voriconazole dosing reduces pharmacokinetic variability, but many patients remain subtherapeutic. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of candidate genes and a nov...
Enhanced recovery after surgery is widely used in the perioperative period in the field of urology; however, it lacks comprehensive and systematic evidence supporting its efficacy and safety...
Known disparities related to race and sex in deceased donor liver transplantation also appear to influence live donor liver transplantation....
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common cause of infection after transplantation, but few studies have evaluated its epidemiology, risk factors, and outcomes among pancreas transplant recipients. ...
Pulmonary antibody-mediated rejection is still a challenging diagnosis as C4d has poor sensitivity. Previous studies have indicated that the phosphorylated S6 ribosomal protein, a component ...
Recent work has suggested that outcomes among heart transplant patients listed at the lower-urgency (United Network for Organ Sharing Status 4 or 6) status may not be significantly impacted ...
High-MELD living-donor liver transplants show acceptable outcomes, similar to deceased-donor transplants, offering hope for reducing donor shortages....
Standardized use of venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment models (RAMs) in surgical patients has been limited, in part due to the cumbersome workflow addition required to use availabl...
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