Solid organ transplantation has transformed the lives of many children and adults by providing treatment for patients with organ failure who would have otherwise succumbed to their disease. The first successful transplant in 1954 was a kidney transplant between identical twins, which circumvented the problem of rejection from MHC incompatibility. Further progress in solid organ transplantation ...

Two types of transplants are offered to patients with complicated insulin dependent diabetes mellitus: a) whole pancreas transplantation, b) pancreatic islet transplantation. A total of 29000 whole pancreas transplantations and 1500 islet transplantations have been performed worldwide until today. Patient survival for whole pancreas recipients is 85% five years after transplantation, whereas ve...

The Transplantation Unit of the Technical University of Munich has developed a mobile, handheld based application for preoperative transplantation patient management. It provides information on potential organ receivers and thus assists the surgeons in considering the prospects of a forthcoming organ transplantation. Any decision is documented and authenticated. The system employs sophisticated...

Background : With the improvement in transplant technology major organ transplantation is gradually becoming the treatment of choice in many conditions. The present study assesses the awareness of the concepts of brain death and organ transplantation among public. Methods : Six hundred thirty six select populations, which included office-goers of Delhi, class 12th school children of a reputed p...

This article uses OPTN/SRTR data to review trends in pediatric transplantation over the last decade. In 2003, children younger than 18 made up 3% of the 82,885 candidates for organ transplantation and 7% of the 25,469 organ transplant recipients. Children accounted for 14% of the 6,455 deceased organ donors. Pediatric organ transplant recipients differ from their adult counterparts in several i...

BACKGROUND The number of patients awaiting allograft transplantation in the UK exceeds the number of organs offered for transplantation each year. Most organ donors tend to be young, fit and healthy individuals who die because of trauma or sudden cardiac arrest. Patients who die from drug and poison intoxication tend to have similar characteristics but are less frequently offered as potential o...

Organ transplantation is a safe and often life-saving treatment option for patients suffering from organ failure. Advances in operating techniques, basic understanding of immunology, rejection prophylaxis/therapy and, last but not least, organ preservation have paved the way for long-term success in transplantation medicine. However, the shortage of donor organs remains a fundamental problem. F...

With the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), HIV infection has become a chronic disease with more frequent end-stage organ failures. As a result, the question of transplantation in HIV patients is raised more often. Although still subject to controversies, HIV infection is no longer an absolute contraindication to solid organ transplantation. We report a case of combin...

Reports of brodalumab use for psoriasis in organ transplant recipients are limited. We report a case which was used to treat patient who had undergone solid transplantation with excellent response and good tolerability.

c i d a Organ transplantation requires potent antirejection medcation that often results in significant weight gain [1]. vidence has shown that morbidly obese patients who unergo organ transplantation have significantly worse patient nd graft survival compared with morbidly obese patients ithout transplantation [2]. Permanent weight reduction in ransplanted morbidly obese patients is expected t...