Background:  Renal transplantation is the best choose in the end stage renal disease (ESRD), and acute rejection and graft dysfunction remain major challenges in the worldwide, even with the advent of new immunosuppressive drugs. The novel cell-based anti-rejection treatments have been studied by using different stem cell sources. In this study, transplantation of autologous-bone-marrow-derive...

background when using brain dead donors for organ donation, assessment of kidney function before the procedure is essential. objectives it would be ideal to find an early marker of viability of donor kidneys that is more accurate than creatinine. patients and methods the present study was conducted from march of 2011 to march of 2012, included 52 deceased donors. serum and urinary neutrophil ge...

background chronic renal failure is an important and common complication of diabetes mellitus; hence, renal transplantation is a frequent and the acceptable treatment in patients with diabetic nephropathy requiring renal replacement therapy. on the other hand, renal transplantation and its conventional treatment can lead to increased diabetes outbreak in normoglycemic recipients. also, uncontro...

oral mucosa can be affected in many systemic diseases such as chronic renal failure (crf). many metabolic and hematologic disorders develop in patients with crf which can also affect oral cavity. oral mucosa, teeth, salivary glands and jaw bones are affected. although hemodialysis can improve many of systemic features but the best treatment is renal transplantation. in addition to previous feat...

background: in addition to human leukocyte antigens (hla) compatibility, gene polymorphisms in cytokines might also be important in the quality of allogeneic immune response. objective: to evaluate the influence of hla-dr matching and a number of cytokine gene polymorphisms on acute rejection after living-unrelated donor (lurd) kidney transplantation. methods: a total of 42 renal transplants pe...

kidney transplantation in children is the treatment of choice to treat end stage renal disease. improvements in immunosuppressive management have dramatically reduced the risk of early acute rejection and graft loss, however the long term results in terms of graft survival and morbidity still require search for new immunosuppressive regimens. reducing of side effects are the challenges for impr...

there had been few if any study for second pancreas transplant outcome and consequences in patients with simultaneous kidney pancreas transplant after failure of the first pancreas allograft. the aim of this study was to compare the patient and graft survival and clinical outcomes and complication of the second pancreas transplant in patients with simultaneous kidney pancreas, compared with pan...

Sir, We read with interest the article recently published in Iranian Journal of Kidney Diseases, titled “Effect of Erythropoietin on Kidney Allograft Survival: Early Use After Transplantation” by Yassari and colleagues.1 This study focused on the impact of recombinant human erythropoietin on graft survival during the six months after kidney transplantation. In a univariable analysis, they concl...

mucormycosis is a serious fungal infection caused by the filamentous fungi of the mucorales order of the class of zygomycetes. mucormycosis is classically defined as an opportunistic fatal infection. in this report we explain a 49 years old woman with palato-orbital tract as a sequel of rhino cerebral mucormycosis and end stage renal disease candidate for kidney transplantation. difficulties in...