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...

introduction: the long-term use of immunosuppressive agents for prevention of allograft rejection increases the risk of malignancy approximately 100 times as high as that in the general population and kaposi’s sarcoma (ks) is a relatively common malignancy after kidney transplantation. the aim of present study was to investigate the frequency of ks in patients with kidney transplantation in 20 ...

background and objective: cytomegalovirus (cmv) infections are associated with severe morbidity and mortality in patients, especially pediatric renal transplantation patients. the use of immunosuppressive agents places these patients at the risk of viral infections. as cytomegalovirus infection influences the graft outcome, adopting useful strategies for limiting this virus after transplantatio...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The requirement for an effective, minimally toxic immunosuppressive agent remains a major obstacle to performing high risk corneal transplantation. Although therapy with cyclosporin A (CSA) allows superior graft survival, its use is limited because of a wide range of side effects. Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) has been shown to be a safe and effective immunosuppressive agent follo...

tricho-dento-osseous syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant disorder. immunosuppressive drugs, though critical to the treatment, have undesirable effects on patient's healing process. this is a case report of a 10-year-old female, suffering from tricho-dento-osseous syndrome who was under treatment with penicillamine. as the dental treatment was sought too late, both central and lateral incisors...