Vink, Peter Ramon Torrell, Josep Maria Sanchez Fructuoso, Ana Kim, Sung-Joo Kim, Sang-Il Zaltzman, Jeff Ortiz, Fernanda Campistol Plana, Josep Maria Fernandez Rodriguez, Ana Maria Rebollo Rodrigo, Henar
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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
The incidence of herpes zoster is up to 9 times higher in immunosuppressed solid organ transplant recipients than in the general population. We investigated the immunogenicity and safety of an adjuvanted recombinant zoster vaccine (RZV) in renal transplant (RT) recipients ≥18 years of age receiving daily immunosuppressive therapy. In this phase 3, ...
Imran, Hafiz Jankowich, Matthew Choudhary, Gaurav
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Rhode Island medical journal (2013)
Porto-pulmonary hypertension has been recently recognized in patients post-liver transplantation with or without pre-transplant hepatopulmonary syndrome. We present a unique case of pulmonary hypertension in a 65-year-old patient after simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation for cirrhosis secondary to chronic hepatitis C infection and alcohol use...
Bell, Richard Farid, Shahid Pandanaboyana, Sanjay Upasani, Vivek Baker, Richard Ahmad, Niaz
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Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association
This study compared long-term outcomes of renal transplantation from donors following donation after circulatory death (DCD) with those following donation after brain death (DBD) from one of the largest centres in the UK. Recipients of renal transplants from deceased donors between 2002 and 2014 were identified from a prospectively maintained datab...
Gay, Juliette Gendron, Nicolas Verney, Charles Joste, Valentin Dardé, Marie‐Laure Loheac, Charlotte Vrtovsnik, François Argy, Nicolas Houzé, Sandrine
Disseminated toxoplasmosis is infrequent after kidney transplant transmission but life‐threatening because of a lack of diagnostic suspicion as well as specific chemoprophylaxis recommendations. Solid organ transplantation has resulted in few cases of disseminated toxoplasmosis presenting with associated hemophagocytic syndrome. Herein, we report, ...
Abeysekera, Natasha Graver, Alison Cooley, Louise Kirkland, Geoff Jose, Matthew D
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Nephrology (Carlton, Vic.)
Examine the incidence of suspected and proven infections, the range of infections, antimicrobial use and hospital admissions in kidney transplant recipients (KTx) in southern Tasmania. An audit of the medical records of KTx managed by the Royal Hobart Hospital for the period 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2016. Data were collected on positive microb...
Tabriziani, Hossein Baron, Pedro Abudayyeh, Islam Lipkowitz, Michael
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Clinical kidney journal
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality and is becoming more prevalent as the population ages and risk factors increase. This is most apparent in the end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patient population. In part, this is due to cofactors such as diabetes and hypertension commonly predisposing to progressive renal disease, ...
lai, hung-chih lin, ji-fan hwang, thomas i.s. liu, ya-fang yang, an-hang chung-kuan, wu
Given advancements in cancer immunity, cancer treatment has gained breakthrough developments. Immune checkpoint inhibitors, such as programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) inhibitors, are the most promising drugs in the field and have been approved to treat various types of cancer, such as metastatic melanoma, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, and urot...
Nicolle, Lindsay E Gupta, Kalpana Bradley, Suzanne F Colgan, Richard DeMuri, Gregory P Drekonja, Dimitri Eckert, Linda O Geerlings, Suzanne E Köves, Béla Hooton, Thomas M
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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) is a common finding in many populations, including healthy women and persons with underlying urologic abnormalities. The 2005 guideline from the Infectious Diseases Society of America recommended that ASB should be screened for and treated only in pregnant women or in an individual prior to undergoing invasive urologi...
Nicolle, Lindsay E Gupta, Kalpana Bradley, Suzanne F Colgan, Richard DeMuri, Gregory P Drekonja, Dimitri Eckert, Linda O Geerlings, Suzanne E Köves, Béla Hooton, Thomas M
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Published in
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) is a common finding in many populations, including healthy women and persons with underlying urologic abnormalities. The 2005 guideline from the Infectious Diseases Society of America recommended that ASB should be screened for and treated only in pregnant women or in an individual prior to undergoing invasive urologi...
Dagenais, Renée Leung, Marianna Poinen, Krishna Landsberg, David
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The Annals of pharmacotherapy
Once renal transplant recipients are stabilized and require less frequent follow-up with their transplant team, health care providers outside of the transplant setting play an integral role in patients' ongoing medical care. Given renal transplant recipients' inherent complexity, these health care providers often seek consult regarding decisions th...
