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Combined Kidney Transplantation (Tx) with Heart, Liver or Pancreas
Surgical technologies and immunosuppressive treatment refinment allow to practice simultaneous or differed multiple Tx for a same patient (pt).
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Can we select candidates for combined kidney and heart or liver transplantation?
A better understanding of diseases such as primary hyperoxaluria and multiorgan failure have led to the performance of combined organ transplantation. We present here the indications and results of combined ki...
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Discontinuation of Immunosuppressive Treatment after Kidney Transplantation
Data were collected over a period of 24 years (since the early 70s). During this period, 12 definite case-reports of treatment discontinuation were recorded.
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Interest of Radionuclide Imaging in Diagnosis of a Case of non Evident Urinary Fistula after Renal Transplantation
Urinary fistula is a serious complication which usually occur early after renal transplantation and whose timely diagnosis is important before irreversible impairment of the graft. Ultrasonography, radiologic ...
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Disseminated Tuberculosis with Pulmonary Miliary and Pharyngeal Localisation in 2 Kidney Transplanted Patients
We observed 2 cases of disseminated tuberculosis with pulmonary miliary.
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Successful Fibrinolysis Following Thrombosis in a Grafted Kidney Artery
A 25 year old man was admitted to the transplant unit for an acute kidney graft pain which occured 20 hours before associated with oliguria. The chronic renal failure was due to reflux nephropathy. He underwen...