Renal 123I-MIBG Uptake before and after Live-Donor Kidney Transplantation

Successful Live Kidney Transplantation After Chikungunya Disease in the Donor

José Andrade Moura-Neto, Ana Flávia de Souza Moura, Edison Souza, Jorge Luiz de Carvalho Henriques Jr, Mônica Barcellos Arruda, Luciana Santos Pessoa, Lídia Theodoro Boullosa, Orlando da Costa Ferreira Junior and José Hermógenes Rocco Suassuna Clinical and Academic Unit of Nephrology, Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto, Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; CSB Group of Nep...

Current status of live-donor renal transplantation

Impaired lung 123I-MIBG uptake on SPECT in pulmonary emphysema.

UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to evaluate impaired lung uptake of (123)I-metaiodobenzylguanidine ((123)I-MIBG) on SPECT, compared with perfusion SPECT and morphologic CT, in patients with pulmonary emphysema (PE). METHODS (123)I-MIBG SPECT was performed at 15 min and 4 h after intravenous injection of (123)I-MIBG in 36 PE patients with a history of smoking and variable-extent low-atten...

Comparison of Depression Signs Before, During and After the Kidney Transplantation in Babol Shahid Beheshti Hospital

Background: Depression is the most common psychological problem in patients with chronic renal failure, which has a negative effect on the outcome of treatment and life quality. The aim of this study was to compare the symptoms of depression in patients referring to the Kidney Transplant Unit of Babol Shahid Beheshti Hospital before transplantation, at discharge and three months after transplan...

impact of donor source on the outcome of live donor kidney transplantation: a single center experience

patients and methods from march 1976 to december 2013, the number of patients that underwent living renal transplantation sharing at least one hla haplotype with their donors was 2,485. we divided these patients into two groups: (1) 2,075 kidney transplant recipients (1,554 or 74.9% male and 521 or 25.1% female) for whom the donors were living related, (2) 410 kidney transplant recipients (297 ...