The Two Kidney to One Kidney Transition and Transplant Glomerulopathy: A Podocyte Perspective

Kidney transplant outcomes in familial C3 glomerulopathy

C3 glomerulopathy, a newly designated entity, is characterized by glomerular disease associated with dysregulation of the alternative complement pathway and is a rare cause of end-stage kidney disease. Overall disease characteristics that include clinical presentation, laboratory assessment, histopathology and genetic background have only been unravelled in recent years and have led to the deve...

Covid-19 infection in kidney transplant recipients: a case report

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Immunosuppressive Drugs and Kidney Post-transplant Diabetes Mellitus

Background: As the rate of renal transplantation increases, more immunosuppressive drugs such as cyclosporine A (CsA) are consumed, particularly during the early months following transplantation, leading to post-transplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM) which can cause death. Objective: The present study examined the role of CsA in causing PTDM and other effect...

Development and validation of a prognostic index for allograft outcome in kidney recipients with transplant glomerulopathy

We studied 92 patients with transplant glomerulopathy to develop a prognostic index based on the risk factors for allograft failure within five years of diagnosis (Development cohort). During 60 months (median) follow-up, 64 patients developed allograft failure. A chronic-inflammation score generated by combining Banff ci, ct and ti scores, serum creatinine and proteinuria at biopsy, were indep...