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Cytomegalovirus infection management in solid organ transplant recipients across European centers in the time of molecular diagnostics: An ESGICH sur…

2017

Background Scant information is available about how transplant centers are managing their use of quantitative molecular testing (QNAT) assays for active cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection monitoring in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients. The current study was aimed at gathering information on current practices in the management of CMV infection across European centers in the era of molecular testing assays. Methods A questionnaire-based cross-sectional survey study was conducted by the European Study Group of Infections in Immunocompromised Hosts (ESGICH) of the Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID). The invitation and a weekly reminder with a personal link to …

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Determinants of influenza vaccination among solid organ transplant recipients attending Sicilian reference center

2016

Among solid organ transplant recipients, influenza infection is commonly associated with higher morbidity and mortality than immunocompetent hosts. Therefore, in these subjects influenza vaccination is of paramount importance. The main objective of the study was to assess compliance to vaccination and analyze factors associated with influenza vaccination of solid organ transplant recipients admitted to the Sicilian solid organ transplant Reference Center IRCCS-ISMETT in Palermo during 2014–2015 influenza season. Thirty one (37.8%) out of 82 solid organ transplant recipients were vaccinated against influenza. The main reason for vaccination refusal was fear of adverse reaction (n = 16, 31.4%…

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A Single-Center Experience with Lung Transplants During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021

BACKGROUND This single-center study analyzed distinctions between lung transplants performed in the Department of Cardiac and Vascular surgery of the University Clinical Center in Gdansk, Poland before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. MATERIAL AND METHODS There were 189 patients who underwent the qualification procedure to lung transplantation in the Department of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery of the University Clinical Center in Gdansk, Poland in the years 2019 and 2020. The control group consisted of 12 patients transplanted in 2019, and the study group consisted of 16 patients transplanted in 2020. RESULTS During 2019, the qualification process was performed in 102 patients with pulmonar…

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The tongue as an alternative donor site for graft urethroplasty: A pilot study

2006

Purpose: Urethroplasty with a buccal mucosal graft provides excellent clinical results but it may also cause oral complications in some cases. The mucosa covering the lateral and under surface of the tongue is identical in structure with that lining the rest of the oral cavity. We evaluated LMGs for urethroplasty.Materials and Methods: From January 2001 to September 2004, 8 men 34 to 65 years old (mean age 46.1) with urethral strictures 1.5 to 4.5 cm long were selected for 1-stage dorsal onlay urethroplasty. The site of the harvest graft was the lateral mucosal lining of the tongue. Postoperatively all patients were followed with urethrography, uroflowmetry, cystourethrography and flexible …

AdultMalemedicine.medical_specialtyUrethral strictureUrologyUrethroplastymedicine.medical_treatmentTransplantsPilot ProjectsTransplantTongueUrethraTonguemedicineHumansAlternative donorUrethral strictureAgedbusiness.industryMouth MucosaMucous membraneMucous membraneBuccal administrationMiddle Agedmedicine.diseaseSurgerymedicine.anatomical_structureUrethraMucosal graftUrethra; Urethral stricture; Tongue; Mucous membrane; TransplantsUrologic Surgical Proceduresbusiness
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Lingual mucosal graft urethroplasty for anterior urethral reconstruction.

2008

Objective: Evaluate the use of lingual mucosal graft (LMG) in anterior urethral strictures.Methods: From January 2001 to December 2006, 29 men (mean age, 48.5 yr) with anterior urethral strictures underwent graft urethroplasty with LMG. The mean length of stricture was 3.6 cm. Patients with bulbar, penile, or bulbopenile strictures received one-stage dorsal free graft urethroplasties. In patients with failed hypospadias repair we performed a two-stage urethroplasty. Criteria for successful reconstruction were spontaneous voiding with no postvoid residual urine and no postoperative instrumentation of any kind. Clinical assessment included the donor site morbidity.Results: Mean follow-up was …

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Results of heart retransplantation: subanalysis of the Spanish Heart Transplant Registry

2021

Heart retransplantation (ReHT) is controversial in the current era. The aim of this study was to describe and analyze the results of ReHT in Spain. Methods We performed a retrospective cohort analysis from the Spanish Heart Transplant Registry from 1984 to 2018. Data were collected on donors, recipients, surgical procedure characteristics, immunosuppression, and survival. The main outcome was posttransplant all-cause mortality or need for ReHT. We studied differences in survival according to indication for ReHT, the time interval between transplants and era of ReHT. Results A total of 7592 heart transplants (HT) and 173 (2.3%) ReHT were studied (median age, 52.0 and 55.0 years, respectively…

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Prophylaxis and treatment of hepatitis B in immunocompromised patients

2007

HBVTransplantshepatitis BAntivirals HBV Immunosuppression TransplantsAntiviralsImmunosuppression
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Prophylaxis and treatment of hepatitis B in immunocompromised patients.

2007

The literature on hepatitis B virus (HBV) in immunocompromised patients is heterogeneous and referred mainly to the pre-antivirals era. Today a rational approach to the problem of hepatitis B in these patients provides for: (a) the evaluation of HBV markers and of liver condition in all subjects starting immunosuppressive therapies (baseline), (b) the treatment with antivirals (therapy) of active carriers, (c) the pre-emptive use of antivirals (prophylaxis) in inactive carriers, especially if they are undergoing immunosuppressive therapies judged to be at high risk, (d) the biochemical and hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) monitoring (or universal prophylaxis, in case of high risk immunos…

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PLURALISMO JURÍDICO E A DIFUSÃO DOS DIREITOS

2014

The purpose of this essay is to describe how a pluralistic view of law reshapes the current legal discourse. The focus will be particularly on: sources of law, legal families and legal traditions, and legal transplants. While the traditional account based on State law and on a sharp opposition of legal/non legal and official/unofficial law proved to be untrustworthy and oversimplifying, the proposed conceptualization helps to outline the distinction in a more nuanced and realistic way

Legal Pluralism. Comparative Law. Souces Of Law. Legal Families. Legal TransplantsSettore IUS/02 - Diritto Privato Comparato
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Legal Transplants and Economic Development: Common Law vs. Civil Law?

2009

The essay analyzes the phenomenon of legal transplant as instrument to promote and favor economic development, casting a glance to the debate on the choice of the pattern which better suits economic development from a legal perspective.

Legal transplants economic development comparative law
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