Thoracic transplantation

Thoracic Transplantation

Thoracic transplantation.

University of Colorado, Denver, CO University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN)/United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), Richmond, VA University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR)/University of Mi...

Cytomegalovirus Immunoglobulin After Thoracic Transplantation

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a highly complex pathogen which, despite modern prophylactic regimens, continues to affect a high proportion of thoracic organ transplant recipients. The symptomatic manifestations of CMV infection are compounded by adverse indirect effects induced by the multiple immunomodulatory actions of CMV. These include a higher risk of acute rejection, cardiac allograft vasculop...

The Transplantation and Replacement of Thoracic Organs

is an excellent chapter on pancreatic function tests which we possibly don't do enough of. Northern Ireland clinicians, who have excellent immunology and gastrointestinal hormone backup, might have liked more detail on the antibody tests for coeliac disease and their limitations and on fasting gastrin, which is probably as useful and a lot less bother than a Schilling test for diagnosis of pern...

Thoracic duct fistula and renal transplantation.

Thoracic duct drainage (TDD) was established for 21-115 days in 40 kidney recipients with an average removal per patient day of 4.7 1 lymph and 1.88 billion cells. Cellular and humoral immunity were depressed. TDD and immunosuppressive drugs were started at transplantation in 35 recipients of cross-match negative grafts. Although the results were better than in precedent non-TDD controls, eight...