This paper presents an efficient method for securely broadcasting a message to multiple recipients in a heterogeneous environment where each recipient is allowed to choose his or her preferred secure encryption scheme independently of other recipients’ choices. Previous work pertinent to this direction of research, namely multi-recipient encryption scheme (MRES), generally requires all recipien...

BACKGROUND The psychological functioning of living donor (LD) and deceased donor (DD) recipients are important factors for emotional adjustment to transplantation. This study investigated differences in medical, sociodemographic and emotional factors between these two groups. METHODS A total of 241 kidney transplant recipients (68 LD, 173 DD) completed questionnaires on emotional and behaviou...

BACKGROUND Survival after lung transplantation (LTx) is often limited by bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS). METHOD Survey of 278 recipients who underwent LTx. The endpoint used was BOS (BOS grade ≥ 2), death or Re-lung transplantation (Re-LTx) assessed by competing risk regression analyses. RESULTS The incidence of BOS grade ≥ 2 among double LTx (DLTx) recipients was 16 ± 3% at 5 year...

The present study was designed to investigate the development of blood pressure and renal sodium handling in recipients of renal grafts from adult stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP), normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats, and borderline hypertensive F1 hybrids bred from SHRSP and WKY rats. Unilaterally nephrectomized F1 hybrids served as renal graft recipients. The second nativ...

OBJECTIVE Mycophenolic acid (MPA) exposure is associated with clinical outcomes in hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) recipients. Various drug interaction studies, predominantly in healthy volunteers or solid organ transplant recipients, have identified medications which impact MPA pharmacokinetics. Recipients of nonmyeloablative HCT, however, have an increased burden of comorbidities, potenti...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections frequently complicate the post-operative course of transplant recipients, and despite nasal carriage and endemic colonization, MRSA outbreaks are not commonly described. This study reports a case of MRSA outbreak and discusses infection control measures and recommendations for this situation.

OBJECTIVE To prospectively validate the Parent and Adolescent Medication Barriers Scales (PMBS and AMBS) for assessing perceived barriers to medication adherence in adolescent transplant recipients by examining the relations of perceived barriers to medication adherence and clinical outcomes at 18-month follow-up. METHODS Of the 82 adolescent recipients enrolled in the initial cohort, 66 fami...

Although in utero transplantation (IUT) has been shown to be effective in treating human severe combined immune deficiency (SCID), the relative merit of IUT as compared with postnatal bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for SCID is unknown. Therefore, comparative studies were undertaken in mice to determine the engraftment outcome in these two settings. Because T-cell depletion (TCD) reduces graf...

AIM To investigate blood cultures of deceased donors and report the confirmed transmission of bacterial infection from donors to liver recipients. METHODS We retrospectively studied the results of blood cultures among our donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors and calculated the donor-derived bacterial infection rates among liver recipients. Study participants underwent liver transplantati...

BACKGROUND We studied human cytomegalovirus (CMV) donor-to-recipient transmission patterns in organ transplantation by analyzing genomic variants on the basis of CMV glycoprotein B (gB) genotyping. METHODS Organ transplant recipients were included in the study if they had CMV viremia, if they had received an organ from a CMV-seropositive donor, and if there was at least 1 other recipient of a...