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Analysis of the intrapulmonary distribution of ventilation and PO2 in patients after single-lung transplantation: a 3Helium MRI study

2000

Abnormal Nailfold Capillaries in Patients after Hand Transplantation

2020

Background: The development of graft vasculopathy may play a role in the long-term deterioration of hand grafts. The aim of study was to examine the patterns of the nailfold capillaries in hand transplant recipients. Methods: the study was performed on six patients who received hand transplantation. To normalize for the effect of immunosuppression an age- and sex-matched group of 12 patients with active kidney transplant was selected. As an additional control group, 12 healthy volunteers were recruited. Nailfold videocapillaroscopy was performed in all participants. Additionally, serum concentrations of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) were measured. Results: Videocapillaroscopic e…

Non-wild-type cryptococcosis in a child with multivisceral organ transplant who owned bird pets.

2020

Cryptococcosis is the third most common invasive fungal infection in solid-organ transplant recipients, although it is rarely reported in transplanted children. It typically appears as a late-onset infection with central nervous system or pulmonary involvement. We present a case of cryptococcosis caused by a non-wild strain in a 10-year-old child who owned two pet birds, and review the existent literature.

Prevention of apoptosis by deferoxamine during 4 hours of cold cardioplegia and reperfusion: in vitro study of isolated working rat heart model.

2002

INTRODUCTION: Heart transplantation is often accompanied by multiple functional alterations, especially in reperfusion period. These are probably related to the reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation catalyzed by transition metals such as iron and copper, and thus the preservation time of the donor hearts is limited. Metabolic protection of the heart grafts is a permanent objective of numerous experiments. Recently, an iron chelator deferoxamine (DFX) was proposed as antioxidant agent for storage solutions in heart grafts. Oxidative stress is also known to mediate the apoptotic cell death in different tissues during ischemia-reperfusion. METHODS: The aim of this study was to evaluate a pos…

Toxoplasmosis after hematopoietic stem transplantation. Report of a 5-year survey from the Infectious Diseases Working Party of the European Group fo…

2000

Toxoplasmosis after hematopoietic stem transplantation. Report of a 5-year survey from the Infectious Diseases Working Party of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Technique des membranes induites en chirurgie maxillo-faciale

2012

Maxillofacial defects reconstruction represents a formidable challenge to achieve both functional and aesthetic goals. To succeed, numerous parameters must be taken into account: patient's general conditions, defect's location, width and type of the defect and eventual donor sites which can provide the tissues. Routine reconstructions include bone transplantation (autologous, homologous or heterologous), implantation of biomaterials and osteogenic distraction. The advantages of these techniques are evident, but they are usually limited by their complexity in patients with bad general health. The technique of induced membranes needs to be more known in maxillofacial surgery.

Stretching the boundaries for liver transplant in the 21st century.

2018

Given the high waiting list mortality, there is a clear need to identify strategies to increase the number of livers for transplantation. Some strategies require policy changes, whereas others depend on a better understanding of available opportunities. We divided the strategies to increase the number of livers for transplantation into two categories-those aiming to increase the use of organs considered to be of suboptimal quality, and those aiming to increase the use of organs considered to be of suboptimal size. Enough evidence suggests that, if considered in the context of other donor and recipient variables, grafts from elderly donors are a safe option. The severity of steatosis, and no…

Lung Transplantation

2014

For patients with terminal lung conditions such chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD), lung transplantation (LuTx) offers treatment to improve quality of life and additionally, in those with certain other diseases—e.g., cystic fibrosis (CF), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)—to prolong life (1, 2, e1). It is used at the point when, despite treatment by all available conservative methods, the patient’s quality of life will be clearly impaired or life shortened if transplantation does not take place (3, 4, e2). At present, there are four main surgical options when performing a lung transplantation (5, e3, e4). These are: Unilateral (single lung) …

Italian association for the study of the liver position statement on SARS-CoV2 vaccination.

2021

The vaccination campaign against Sars-CoV-2 commenced in Italy at the end of December 2020. The first ones to receive the immunization against the virus were the health workers and the residents of nursing homes, following which the vaccine would be available for the entire population, beginning with the most vulnerable individuals. SARS-CoV2 vaccines have been demonstrated to be safe for the general population, although no data for patients with liver diseases or those having undergone liver transplantation are available so far. The present position statement AISF is an attempt to suggest, based on the published data on the impact of Sars-Cov-2 infection in patients with chronic liver dise…

Therapeutic Effectiveness of Nutrition Therapy in Pediatric Patients with Chronic Liver Diseases Awaiting Liver Transplantation

2013

It is important to prevent protein/calorie malnutrition in children with end stage liver diseases prior to transplantation. This study involved 34 patients between the ages of 10 and 156 months (mean value 25.69 months ± 32.2) (13 females and 21 males) on the liver transplant waiting list. Data collected as of three months before transplant and up to ten months after the procedure concerned gender, age, weight, height, Pediatric End Stage Liver Disease Score, baseline pathology, type of nutrition, type of transplant, immunosuppression, pulse steroid therapy, length of stay, and post transplant complications. Linear regression analysis showed that the length of hospital stay was 24.5 days mo…