results one-, three-, five-, and ten-year graft survival was 93.8%, 86.8%, 76.6%, and 37.4%, respectively. the results of the joint model showed that risk indicators, such as serum creatinine level (p < 0.0001, hr = 1.82), patient’s age (p = 0.006, hr = 1.03), and anti-thymocytes globulin (p = 0.019, hr = 2.57) had a significant relationship to graft survival. conclusions in general, our study ...

introduction: acute rejection of renal transplant is a serious and common systemic inflammatory disorder which leads to decreasing half-life of transplant organ. current diagnoses method is an invasive biopsy procedure on allogtraft kidney. therefore, applying a novel and noninvasive diagnostic method such as granzym b level in acute renal transplantation could help patients and improves surviv...

OBJECTIVES Prior research has linked illness identity-or the extent to which is integrated into one's identity-to diabetes-specific functioning. Four identity dimensions have been identified: rejection, acceptance, engulfment, and enrichment. As longitudinal on this topic scarce, study examined developmental trajectories of prospective associations between METHOD Adolescents emerging adults wit...

a prospective study during 1990-1995 was conducted to assess the risk of rejection and infection in kidney-transplant recipients, who&apos;s original kidney had vesico-ureteral reflux (ver). two groups of recipients with and without ver were followed for one month after transplant 24 and 250 cases respectively. the calculated relative risks for the effect of ver showed a moderate increased risk...

In this paper, a systematic procedure is proposed for the generalized design of decoupling multivariable controller, which may result in a complete decoupling, partial decoupling or no decoupling, to achieve a better disturbance rejection response. Before the decoupling, a relative load gain (abbr. RLG) is defined to determine which control loops need to be decoupled and which control loops don...

A Comparison of Different Control Design Methods for the Linearized CSTR Temperature Model A. D. Shakib Joo Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Iran Corresponding Author: [email protected] ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY: Received 4 October 2013 Revised 12 December 2013 Accepted 15 December 2013 Continuous Stirred Tank Re...

Coevolutionary arms races are a potent force in evolution, and brood parasite-host dynamics provide classical examples. Different host-races of the common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, lay eggs in the nests of other species, leaving all parental care to hosts. Cuckoo eggs often (but not always) appear to match remarkably the color and pattern of host eggs, thus reducing detection by hosts. However, ...