منابع مشابه
living unrelated kidney donor transplantation in iran
in the september and november 2006 issues of nature clinical practice nephrology , two articles regarding living unrelated kidney donor transplantation alluded to the practices in iran. having served in the planning, supervision and implementation of various aspects of health care in iran, including organ transplantation (anh), and as transplant nephrologists who have actively participated in t...
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The disparity between kidney transplant candidates and donors necessitates innovations to increase organ availability. Transporting kidneys allows for living donors and recipients to undergo surgery with a familiar transplant team, city, friends, and family. The effect of shipping kidneys and prolonged cold ischemia time (CIT) with living donor transplantation outcomes is not clearly known. Thi...
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OBJECTIVE To review a single center's experience and outcome with living donor transplants. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Outcome after living donor transplants is better than after cadaver donor transplants. Since the inception of the authors' program, they have performed 2,540 living donor transplants. For the most recent cohort of recipients, improvements in patient care and immunosuppressive pr...
متن کاملTapering immunosuppression in recipients of living donor kidney transplants.
We have previously suggested that the in vitro donor-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte precursor (CTLp) assay can guide us to identify patients in which the immunosuppressive load can be tapered. In a clinical trial we had observed that a low (<10/10(6) PBMC) frequency of these CTLp was predictive for an uneventful rejection-free clinical course in patients that were converted from calcineurin in...
متن کاملEthical issues and living unrelated donor kidney transplantation.
During the past decades, the number of altruistic living unrelated kidney donations has substantially increased in developed countries. However, the altruistic supply of transplantable kidneys has remained much less than the demand. As a result, severe kidney shortage has been associated with increasing number of patient deaths and increasing number of commercial transplants and transplant tour...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Medical Bulletin
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0007-1420,1471-8391
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a011653