Aftercare for Patients with Transplanted Organs

Aftercare for patients with transplanted organs.

BACKGROUND The postoperative management following solid organ transplantation requires close cooperation between family doctors, internists, the local hospital, and the transplant center. METHODS Selective analysis of current national and international guidelines and relevant review articles. RESULTS/CONCLUSION In the early phase post transplantation, aftercare involves inpatient treatment ...

Misdiagnosed malignancy in transplanted organs.

The case reports of three patients who received cancer-bearing organs at this institution are presented. A fourth recipient, who was to be transplanted with a cancerous kidney, was spared this disastrous complication. The relevant data regarding the donors is also alluded to, with special reference to the type and site of the primary malignancy. Following these case reports, the implications of...

Lymphoid Neogenesis and Tertiary Lymphoid Organs in Transplanted Organs

The progressive organization of immune effectors into functional ectopic lymphoid structures, named tertiary lymphoid organs (TLO), has been observed in many conditions in which target antigens fail to be eliminated by the immune system. Not surprisingly, TLO have been recurrently identified in chronically rejected allografts. Although significant progress has been made over the last decades in...

Legal Basis for Donating Organs for Brain Death Patients

Brain death involves the complete and irreversible destruction of brain activity characterized by profound coma, apnea and the absence of all brainstem reflexes. The issue of organ transplantation is a very important issue in the field of jurisprudence and law in addition to being one of the issues to be considered and analyzed in the medical world, especially in jurisprudence and the issue has...

Aftercare of Artificially Paced Patients.