Methods: A cross-sectional quantitative study was conducted with data from 2,036 solid organ transplants performed in the state between 2011 and 2015. Three indicators were calculated, per capita transplants, meeting the demands of the population and the demand for transplants, which demonstrated the effectiveness and the disparities in the process. The association between the variables was ver...

In male rabbits, injections of the female sex hormone result in marked increase in the size of ocular transplants of the prostate and seminal vesicles and a correlated elevation of the blood cholesterol. Other hormones, which cause an increase in the size of the transplants, do not show this correlation. The ingestion of cholesterol with conspicuous increase of the blood cholesterol, has no eff...

The goals of tolerance in patients with solid organ transplants are to eliminate the lifelong need for immunosuppressive (IS) drugs and to prevent graft loss due to rejection or drug toxicity. Tolerance with complete withdrawal of IS drugs has been achieved in recipients of HLA-matched and mismatched living donor kidney transplants in 3 medical centers using hematopoietic cell transplants to es...

Technetium-99m-sulfur colloid (TSC) was administered to 45 renal transplant patients. No TSC accumulation was seen in normally functioning transplant kidneys. Accumulation of TSC was found in 89% of transplants with rejection, in 30% of transplants exhibiting acute tubular necrosis, and in 30% of transplants of patients with sepsis. Renal accumulation of TSC in various transplant complications ...

Fetal transplants rescue axial muscle representations in M1 cortex of neonatally transected rats that develop weight support. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 3021-3030, 1998. Intraspinal transplants of fetal spinal tissue partly alleviate motor deficits caused by spinal cord injury. How transplants modify body representation and muscle recruitment by motor cortex is currently largely unknown. We compared ...

In order to investigate the applicability of techniques to assess the costs and benefits of medical technology, 19 case studies were prepared. All 19 are available individually. In addition, 17 of the cases are available in a collected volume, Background Paper #2: Case Studies of Medical Technologies. Some of the cases represent formal cost-effectiveness analysis (e.g., the case on bone marrow ...

BACKGROUND The living-donor and dual kidney transplantation programmes were initiated in the transplantation centre of Münster (TCM) as two approaches to compensate for the declining numbers of cadaver donor kidney transplants after the implementation of the new Eurotransplant Kidney Allocation System (ETKAS). We analysed the outcome of cadaver, living-donor and dual kidney transplantation and ...

We describe the development of a pediatric outpatient transplant program and our initial experience with autologous and allogeneic transplants performed partially or completely in the outpatient setting. Forty-eight autologous and seven allogeneic transplants have been performed in our institution in the outpatient setting between June 1994 and July 2000. The ablation used for the autologous ou...