adenoviruses are recognized as common human pathogens that are responsible for a wide variety of infectious syndromes. bone marrow transplant patients are prone to life threatening opportunistic infections like adenoviruses. the nested polymerase chain reaction has provided an alternative, sensitive diagnostic method for detection of adenoviruses. in this study we developed pcr from hexon genes...

background: fecal microbiota transplant (fmt) is employed to replace the ‘unhealthy’ microbiota of the patient with the ‘healthy’ microbiota of a pre-screened healthy donor. given the growing importance of gut microbiota dysbiosis in the pathogenesis of intestinal or extraintestinal diseases; it is conceivable that fmt becomes integrated in the routine clinical practice. our objective was to as...

PurposeCardiac re-transplantation (reTX) in pediatrics remains a rare occurrence, representing only 2% of all pediatric heart transplants (HT). The purpose this study was to describe the pre-transplant characteristics, waitlist outcomes and post-HT for reTX at our center.MethodsRetrospective review patients listed transplantation (HT) from 1/1/2014-10/18/2021. Pre-transplant characteristics pos...

allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct) is a curative treatment option for hematological disorders. cyclosporine (csa) is one of the major immunosuppressive agents for the prophylaxis against graft versus host disease (gvhd). in this retrospective study, we evaluated the effects of csa serum levels on the incidence of acute gvhd and transplant outcomes. 103 adult patients rece...

transplanted and hemodialysis patients are frequently affected by parasitic diseases such as cryptosporidiosis. cryptosporidium is a parasite causing self-limited diarrhea and enteritis in healthy individuals. the presence of cryptosporidium infection was studied in three groups including 87 renal transplant patients, 103 hemodialysis patients, and 60 healthy individuals as the control group. t...

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a rare anomaly with a reported incidence of 1 in 16,000 populations. It may be associated with herniation of stomach, intestinal loops, spleen, and kidney through a chest wall defect. We report a case of a 1 year old male child who presented with recurrent fever, occasional chills and rigor of 4 months duration. Left kidney was non visualised on ultrasou...

IMPORTANCE The field of transplantation has made tremendous progress since the first successful kidney transplant in 1954. OBJECTIVE To determine the survival benefit of solid-organ transplant as recorded during a 25-year study period in the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database and the Social Security Administration Death Master File. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS In this re...