...) and hemodialysis (HD), predialysis CKD (pCKD) and renal transplant (RTx) patients and immunosuppressed children. The aim of the present study was to assess the safety and immunogenicity of a single administration of a monovalent inactivated pandemic (H1N1) 2009 vaccine in children with CKD. Methods: Patients were...

...Haotian Gu; Majid Akhtar; Amit Shah; Anjalika Mallick; Marlies Ostermann; John Chambers Introduction: Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality after renal transplantation. We analysed whether pre-transplant transthoracic echocardiograms (TTE) predicted major adverse...

...Elin Isaksson; Gunnar Sterner Background: Optimal levels of intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) in the post-transplant period are not known due to insufficient data. Therefore, we aimed to describe secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) in Swedish renal transplant (RT) recipients and also report events...

...: To clarify the involvement of circulating fibrocytes (CF) and α-smooth muscle actin (SMA)-positive cells in renal allograft injury, we investigated 36 renal transplanted cases at 0 h, 1 h, 2–4 weeks, 4–8 weeks, and 1 year, and 5 normal controls. Double immunofluorescence analysis for both COL1 and CD45...

... survival of these patients has significantly improved over the last decade due to availability of treatment options such as high-dose melphalan with autologous stem cell transplantation and novel anti-myeloma agents. Renal transplantation has not traditionally been considered in these patients due...

...Iain MacPhee; Lynsey Webb; Anna Casula; Udaya Udayaraj Introduction: National transplant registries routinely focus on centre-specific patient and graft survival rates following renal transplantation. However other outcomes such as graft function (as measured by eGFR), haemoglobin and blood pressure...

...D. Nel; J. Vogel; E. Muller; Z. Barday; D. Kahn Background: After renal transplantation, early graft function (EGF) can be divided into delayed graft function (DGF), slow graft function (SGF) and immediate graft function (IGF). DGF is well documented. However, when evaluating the long-term...

...Rommel Ravanan; John O’Neill; Lynsey Webb; Anna Casula; Rachel Johnson; Terry Feest Background: Renal transplantation is recognised as being the optimal treatment modality for many patients with end stage renal disease. This analysis aimed to explore the equity of access to renal transplantation...

...Lynsey Webb; Anna Casula; Rommel Ravanan; Fergus Caskey Introduction: National transplant registries routinely focus on centre-specific patient and graft survival rates following renal transplantation. However other outcomes such as graft function (as measured by eGFR), haemoglobin, biochemical...

... 4 Psychosocial issues for the geriatric renal transplantation candidate Renal transplantation does not specifically ameliorate, and may even aggravate comorbid conditions in the ESRD patient, particularly those degenerative diseases that increase in frequency with aging. For this reason...

... ], with a sensitivity and specificity of 89 and 88% respectively (original BDI), against gold standard structured interview [ 24 ]. Due to these important and salient issues, we aimed to audit our Renal Transplant Clinic against the CG23 guidelines, to investigate whether healthcare professionals were practising...

...Lynsey Webb; Anna Casula; Rommel Ravanan; Charles R.V. Tomson Introduction: National renal transplant registries routinely report on centre-specific patient and graft survival following renal transplantation. However, other outcomes such as graft function (as measured by eGFR), haemoglobin...

... in renal transplant recipients gave conflicting results. We aimed to compare the performance of creatinine- and cystatin C-based equations and creatinine clearance in 102 early postoperative Korean renal transplant patients. Methods: We measured 51 Cr-EDTA clearance using a 2-compartment model...

... mismatching, the spousal donor type or donor age did not affect the graft survival. Conclusion: Renal transplants from spousal donors show similar long-term outcomes to those from better HLA-matched and younger LUDs. 12 02 2009 1 05 2009 15 8 2009 © 2009 S. Karger AG, Basel 2009...

... in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and renal transplant patients. Methods: The aim of the present study was to investigate the genotype and phenotype distribution of the PON1 gene as well as its end product activity in patients with CKD (n = 117), in renal transplant recipients (n = 146) and in reference...

...Rommel Ravanan; Udaya Udayaraj; Retha Steenkamp; David Ansell Introduction: Outcomes following renal transplantation are usually reported as graft or patient survival. However, graft function, haemoglobin and blood pressure are also important measures of quality of care. Methods: Transplant...

... transplantation (KTx). Method: A total of 221 consecutive renal transplant recipients were enrolled in our prospective study (140 males/81 females). CCS was analyzed by spiral multidetector CT at baseline and 1 year after KTx. Bone mineral density (BMD) was measured in the lumbar spine (L-BMD) and femur (F-BMD...

...Lesley Rees; Rukshana Shroff; Carol Hutchinson; Oswald N. Fernando; Richard S. Trompeter Background/Aim: To report our experience of paediatric renal transplantation at Great Ormond Street and Royal Free Hospitals since the inception of the programme. Methods: Retrospective review of the patient...

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... as antirejection therapy. Patients having received a cadaveric renal transplant in 1995, excluding patients with steroid resistant rejection, were chosen as a control cohort. Results: Patient survival rates were 96% (n = 48) and 90% (n = 45) and allograft survival rates were 66% (n = 33) and 62% (n = 31) after 5...