ALLMedicine™ Organ Transplantation Center

Aug 1st, 2020 - This review addresses relevant aspects of Chagas disease in the solid organ transplantation setting. This trypanosomiasis was geographically restricted to America, but migration has turned Chagas disease into a global public health concern. Parasi...

Aug 1st, 2020 - In this article, I review the ethical issues that arise in the allocation of deceased-donor organs to children and young adults. By analyzing the public media cases of Sarah Murnaghan, Amelia Rivera, and Riley Hancey, I assess whether public appea...

Jul 31st, 2020 - Lack of support for self-management may contribute to adverse health outcomes. eHealth has the potential to support self-management, but evidence in solid organ transplantation remains unclear. This review aims to evaluate the benefits and harms o...

Jul 31st, 2020 - Xenogeneic organ transplantation has been proposed as a potential approach to fundamentally solve organ shortage problem. Xenogeneic immune responses across species is one of the major obstacles for clinic application of xeno-organ transplantation...

Jul 31st, 2020 - Obesity is a significant public health concern; however, the incidence post solid-organ transplantation is not well reported. This study determined the incidence and risk factors of obesity among pediatric solid-organ transplant recipients (heart,...

Jun 6th, 2020 - Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography is a standard diagnostic and monitoring tool employed in the management of patients undergoing an entire spectrum of cardiac surgical procedures, ranging from "routine" surgical coronary revasculariz...

Mar 29th, 2018 - Despite recent advances, cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections remain one of the most common complications affecting solid organ transplant recipients, conveying higher risks of complications, graft loss, morbidity, and mortality. Research in the field...

Dec 31st, 2017 - Improved therapy has substantially increased survival of persons with cystic fibrosis (CF). But the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) in adults with CF is 5-10 times greater compared to the general population, and 25-30 times greater in CF patients ...

Nov 3rd, 2015 - Long-term Outcome of Living Kidney Donation: Position Paper of the European Committee on Organ Transplantation, Council of Europe.|2015|Cozzi E,Biancone L,López-Fraga M,Nanni-Costa A, ,|standards,diagnosis,mortality,surgery,adverse effects,mortali...

Aug 14th, 2015 - Since Italian liver allocation policy was last revised (in 2012), relevant critical issues and conceptual advances have emerged, calling for significant improvements. We report the results of a national consensus conference process, promoted by th...

Aug 1st, 2020 - This review addresses relevant aspects of Chagas disease in the solid organ transplantation setting. This trypanosomiasis was geographically restricted to America, but migration has turned Chagas disease into a global public health concern. Parasi...

Aug 1st, 2020 - In this article, I review the ethical issues that arise in the allocation of deceased-donor organs to children and young adults. By analyzing the public media cases of Sarah Murnaghan, Amelia Rivera, and Riley Hancey, I assess whether public appea...

Jul 31st, 2020 - Lack of support for self-management may contribute to adverse health outcomes. eHealth has the potential to support self-management, but evidence in solid organ transplantation remains unclear. This review aims to evaluate the benefits and harms o...

Jul 31st, 2020 - Xenogeneic organ transplantation has been proposed as a potential approach to fundamentally solve organ shortage problem. Xenogeneic immune responses across species is one of the major obstacles for clinic application of xeno-organ transplantation...

Jul 31st, 2020 - Obesity is a significant public health concern; however, the incidence post solid-organ transplantation is not well reported. This study determined the incidence and risk factors of obesity among pediatric solid-organ transplant recipients (heart,...

Aug 26th, 2019 - From 2004 to 2014, the U.S. was twice as likely to discard potential donor kidneys than was France, with researchers suggesting the latter country had the better approach. In a head-to-head comparison, the U.S. discard rate for deceased-donor kidn...

Nov 26th, 2018 - Results Ten dermatologic interventions were identified as illustrative, to be presented alongside the risk of automobile injury and death. The LTR of automobile injury was 32%, defined as 1.

Nov 6th, 2018 - The immunosuppressive agent tacrolimus, commonly used for solid organ transplantation, may have a therapeutic role in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), particularly for lupus nephritis, European researchers reported. In a study that included 29 ...

May 1st, 2018 - Factors that appeared unlinked with PTAA included acute organ rejection, duration of posttransplantation steroidal treatment, organ type (living versus cadaveric), donor/recipient blood type and compatibility, infections besides Epstein-Barr virus.

Oct 31st, 2017 - Comment Lymphomatoid granulomatosis is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder associated with various immunocompromised states including primary immunodeficiency disorders, human immunodeficiency virus infection, and immunosuppression for organ trans.