274 * HAS PSYCHOSOCIAL COMPLIANCE AN IMPACT ON LONG-TERM OUTCOME AFTER HEART TRANSPLANTATION?

Long-term clinical outcome after liver transplantation

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Psychosocial Factors and Mobile Health Intervention: Impact on Long-term Outcomes after Lung Transplantation

Body Mass Index Impact on the Long-Term Outcome after Kidney Transplantation in Japanese Patients

Objective: While high BMI has negative impact on patients with acute or chronic kidney disease, low BMI is related to mal-nutrition and poor survival in patients on dialysis. On the other hand, pretransplant medical policy recommends recipients to improve their overweight status in order to prevent postoperative surgical complications. We investigated how pretransplant BMI influence postoperati...

Impact of Diabetes on Long-Term Outcome After Primary Angioplasty

OBJECTIVE Diabetes has been shown to be associated with worse survival and repeat target vessel revascularization (TVR) after primary angioplasty. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the impact of diabetes on long-term outcome in patients undergoing primary angioplasty treated with bare metal stents (BMS) and drug-eluting stents (DES). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Our population is re...

the impact of acute rejection in kidney transplantation on long-term allograft and patient outcome

patients and methods we investigated the timing and frequency of acute rejection episodes related to long-term patient-graft survival in taleghani hospital between 1990 and 2011. recipients were divided into three groups as group-1 (no rejection), group-2 (early acute rejection [ear]: less than 3-months) and group-3 (late acute rejection [lar]: after 3 months of transplant). conclusions lar had...