BK virus nephropathy (BKVN) remains an important cause of graft loss in children after kidney transplantation. In this study, we aimed to study the efficacy using IVIG as adjunctive therapy reduction immunosuppressants for treatment viremia.

Wegener granulomatosis is a well-studied yet sometimes difficult-to-diagnose systemic vasculitis. Early treatment with immunosuppressants is the therapy of choice and usually controls the disease. Two cases of Wegener granulomatosis are presented, both with symptoms and imaging findings suggestive of a malignant tumor of the nasopharynx or skull base. The focus of upper respiratory involvement ...

The treatment of antihistamine and steroid resistant Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria (CIU) during pregnancy poses a challenge due to teratogenicity of immunosuppressants. Omalizumab is a recently FDA approved therapy for CIU and is classified as pregnancy category B. We present an initial series of subjects treated at a tertiary care center for antihistamine and steroid resistant CIU with omalizum...

A six-year old boy presented with dry gangrene of toes and fingers with hypertension with no other systemic abnormalities. He had persistently high inflammatory parameters, was diagnosed as childhood classic polyarteritis nodosa and showed improvement with immunosuppressants along with antihypertensives. Toe gangrene required amputation in view of superadded infection.

Approximately 1,700 cases of renal transplantation are performed annually, and various diseases may occur due to long-term internal use postoperative immunosuppressants. We experienced a case cervical cancer, which is thought be human papillomavirus (HPV)-related after living kidney transplantation, underwent laparoscopic radical hysterectomy.

If pathological anatomy very much center stage during the nineteenth century, with bacteriology gaining greater attention in the second half of that century, it was immunology, perhaps together with endocrinology, which most left its mark on the twentieth century. Although it had been conceived as a specialization in the last decades of the previous century, it is in the twentieth century, and ...