Background Stem cell transplantation has become as a novel treatment  for end-stage kidney, lung, heart , liver diseases and several hematologic disorders. Improved survival of transplant recipients has raised awareness of post-transplant complications. One of these complications is transplant-related osteoporosis. Methods  In this manuscript we review prevention methods for transplant-relat...

Haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has made tremendous progress over the past 20 years and has become a feasible option for leukemia patients without a HLA identical sibling donor. The early complications of severe graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), graft failure and delayed engraftment, as well as disease recurrence have limited the use of this approach. Newer strategies hav...

Currently, transplant program performance monitoring relies almost exclusively on riskadjusted graft and patient survival rates among recipients. The overemphasis on posttransplant metrics may result in risk-aversion and decreased transplant volumes, and may not be in the best interest of waitlisted patients. Further, post-transplant outcomes may not identify structural problems (e.g., understa...

BACKGROUND Liver transplantation is the optimal method of treatment in patients with end-stage liver failure. Transplantation medicine has significantly progressed in the last time, but some psychology and psychosomatic problems still remain unsolved. Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) in liver transplant is considered a useful measure of evolutionary process of the illness. OBJECTIVE The ...

An increasing number of cardiac transplants are being carried out around the world. With increasing longevity, these patients present a unique challenge to non-transplant anesthesiologists for a variety of transplant related or incidental surgeries. The general considerations related to a cardiac transplant recipient are the physiological and pharmacological problems of allograft denervation, t...

INTRODUCTION Patients who survive the initial post-liver transplantation period face the development of chronic diseases in the long run. We studied two important complications of liver transplantation, namely: renal impairment and diabetes mellitus. METHODS We analysed adult patients followed-up for more than one year using data from our liver transplant clinical records. Long-term post-tran...

abstract background: lymphoproliferative disorders are among the most serious and potentially fatal complications of chronic immunosuppression in kidney transplant recipients. the principle risk factors for development of ptld are the degree of overall immunosuppression and the ebv serostatus of the recipient. in this study, the risk of ptld in kidney transplant recipients who received anti- ly...

BACKGROUND Evaluation of a transplanted liver by Imaging techniques and enzyme changes is sensitive to hepatocellular or biliary problems, but in most instances liver allograft biopsies are performed in order to find out the final reason for these changes. OBJECTIVES It's been about 17 years (with more than 1326 cases) since the first liver transplantation in the Namazi Hospital of Shiraz Uni...