..., the assessment and study of incidence and risk factors for PTS in children with TEs in specific organs is limited by the absence of assessment tools. The 3 existing scales measuring severity of PTS in children cannot be applied to nonextremity TEs. Recommendations for the assessment of outcomes of neonates...

... Abstract Sepsis and multiple organ failure (MOF) are characterized by multiple hemodynamic changes and imbalanced immune response of the patient. Oxiris is a highly adsorptive membrane with the ability to remove cytokines and endotoxins, as well as to perform renal replacement therapy. Here we...

... Abstract The incidence of the multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is rapidly increasing in intensive care units (ICU). It usually combines with sepsis and is the most frequent cause of death in the ICU patients. The nature of the ICU patients has changed in the last years. It includes...

... Abstract Vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) is the youngest field in organ transplantation. While not necessarily life-saving per se, VCA was introduced with the intention to treat complex and otherwise untreatable tissue injuries and defects of complex body elements...

... Abstract Organ transplant recipients (OTRs) have a 65- to 250-fold increased risk of the development of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma in the wake of immunosuppression. The combination of ultraviolet light and properties of immunosuppressive drugs potentiate skin cancer formation. Due...

... patients were removed from the waiting list because they became too sick. This organ shortage has prompted to use ‘expanded criteria donor' organs, i.e. those from older, steatotic, or non-heart beating donors, as well as those that have undergone prolonged periods of cold storage. However, the expanded...

... Abstract Solid organ transplantation influences the biology of the skin profoundly. In the wake of transplantation, inflammatory, infectious and neoplastic disorders arise, often with atypical clinical presentation. Inflammatory disorders mainly relate to pathogen-driven conditions...

... Abstract Organ transplant recipients (OTR) are at significantly increased risk to develop a wide variety of skin cancers, particularly epithelial skin cancer, Merkel cell carcinoma and Kaposi’s sarcoma. In addition, melanoma, skin adnexal neoplasm and cutaneous lymphomas are more common in OTR...

... Abstract Transplantation is the treatment of choice for many different organ failures. Despite growing experience in surgery and immunosuppression protocols, the long-term mortality of the procedure remains much higher than in the general population. Second only to cardiovascular diseases...

... Abstract Solid organ transplant recipients (SOTR) have an increased risk of skin cancer due to their long-term immunosuppressive state. As the number of these patients is increasing, as well as their life expectancy, it is important to discuss the screening and management of skin cancer...

... Abstract It is on the tip of everyone’s tongue in the transplant community that recent improvements in short-term survival of solid organ allografts have not translated into the expected increase in long-term survival. Besides chronic immune-mediated damage to the transplanted organ, the poor...

... made to reduce the deaths that occur in this population. An important emerging concept is that AKI does not occur in isolation and it frequently involves other organs. Clinical conditions such as shock, trauma, and sepsis lead to an increase in fluid volume, cytokines/chemokines, uremic toxins...

... Abstract Extracorporeal therapies are able to sustain life through different mechanisms. This approach, called multiple organ support therapy, can in fact obtain blood purification by hemodialysis/hemofiltration to replace kidney function, temperature control, electrolyte and acid-base control...

... Abstract Introduction: The technical and quality aspects of organ culture as a storage method for human donor corneas are described. Materials and Methods: Data electronically stored since 1989 of > 41,000 corneas, processed in the Cornea Bank Amsterdam, are analysed. The technical...

... the current state of research, development in diag-nostic and therapeutic strategies, and to address some emerging problems in the area of humoral response against non-HLA antigens beyond ABO blood group and MHC class I chain-related gene A and B (MICA and MICB) antigens in solid organ transplantation. ...

... Abstract Background/Aims: Sepsis and multiple organ failure are complex processes that resultfrom dysregulation of the immune response and its associated hematological, hemodynamicand metabolic disturbances. Methods: Review of the pathophysiological basis for sepsis anda review...