hypertension is a common complication of kidney transplantation with the prevalence of 80%. studies in adults have shown a high prevalence of hypertension (htn) in the first three months of transplantation while this rate is reduced to 50- 60% at the end of the first year. htn remains as a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, lower graft survival rates and poor function of transplante...

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 unive...

Post-transplant hepatitis B virus (HBV) recurrence prophylaxis is a sine qua non of liver transplantation for HBV-related liver disease because of high rate and aggressive course of HBV recurrence. Hepatitis B immune globulin (HBIG) is a polyclonal immune globulin solution obtained from plasma, donated by individuals with high titres of anti-HBs (hepatitis B antibody). Although it was being use...

the aim of this study is to introduce a parametric mixture model to analysis the competing-risks data with two types of failure. in mixture context, i t h type of failure is i th component. the baseline failure time for the first and second types of failure are modeled as proportional hazard models according to weibull and gompertz distributions, respectively. the covariates affect on both the ...

Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) encounter various challenges following kidney transplantation, which should be managed appropriately. These problems can be partly controlled by considering spirituality as one of the care components. Regarding this, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between coping and spiritual health in the renal transplant recipients. This ...

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-related ...

Data from transplant patients has many unique characteristics that can cause problems with statistical modeling. The patient's underlying disease / health trajectory is known to affect both longitudinal biomarker values and the probability of both death and transplant. In liver transplant patients, biomarker values show a sharp exponential increase in the days preceding death or transplant. Pat...

This report pertains to the psychiatric problems in renal transplant recipients and its socio-demographic correlations.50 male recipient subjects with a post-transplant period ranging from six months to six years were evaluated through tape recorded interviews to study their pre and post-operative emotional reactions. A psychiatric examination was performed by two psychiatrists and a diagnosis ...