normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa microsoftinternetexplorer4 aim : the aim of this study was to describe our results and investigate the survival of below - 18 - year - old patients undergoing lrdlt and the factors affecting this. background : living related donor liver transplantation (lrdlt) has become a good option to provide suitable grafts for children with liver diseases. using t...

conclusions obesity prevalence before and after liver transplantation was comparable. education of obese patients prior to surgery and recommendation of medical nutrition therapy should be appropriate. similar medical care for the non-obese subjects could prevent increase in obesity prevalence. non-corticosteroid immunosuppressive agents had no significant effect on the development of weight ga...

conclusions in this study, the patients’ survival rate was 73%, which is quite low compared to the survival rate reported in other studies. although we only have a 12-year experience with pediatric liver transplantation, the survival rate has increased in our center through the recent years (2008-2011). however, the survival rate of the patients who had survived 3 months after the transplantati...

diet of patient who has tolerated kidney transplantation is differing from the past. knowing about this subject, help patient choose proper diet. patient may be has many questions about his/her diet that must be considered. do you need to special diet? yes, after kidney transplantation, diet playing important role. you understanding that attention to diet after transplantation are easier than d...

conclusions hepatocyte isolation can be performed as the main and initial step for cell transplantation from unused/rejected liver. it is the first experience in iran. results highly quality hepatocytes with high viability and low contamination were isolated. the mean viability was 71.8% ± 21.7. in the first 4 cases microbial contamination by staphylococci, diphtheroid and klebsiella was detect...

conclusions the length of transplanted ureter does not affect the postoperative urologic complications (including urinary fistula and ureter-to-bladder anastomosis stricture), and it seems that decreased rate of complication frequency during the recent years is due to technical improvement, surgeon’s skillfulness and development in use of immunosuppressant’s postoperatively. result a total of 3...

purpose: to investigate indications and methods of surgery in corneal transplantation in labbafinejad medical center from 2007 to 2009. methods: records of 1083 patients who had undergone corneal transplantation from 2007 to 2009 were reviewed. age, sex and indication and type of surgery were evaluated. results: patients included 709 (65.5%) male and 374 (34.5%) female subjects with mean age of...