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Gabriel M. Danovitch
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Open AccessMesangial sclerosis in a patient with type 1 diabetes following simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation despite maintenance of normoglycemia: a case report
Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation is considered a curative treatment for type 1 diabetes complicated by end-stage kidney disease. We report herein a case of mesangial sclerosis in a patient who unde...
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Open AccessPD 1 checkpoint inhibition in solid organ transplants: 2 sides of a coin – case report
The management of malignancy post kidney transplantation includes reduction in immunosuppression and referral to an oncologist management of their malignancy. Recent advances in oncology have resulted in the a...
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T-cell depletion—balancing acute rejection and cancer risk
The authors of a new study suggest that the proinflammatory state of acute rejection combined with the use of T-cell-depleting antibody therapy might explain the increased risk of cancer after kidney transplan...
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Impact of legal measures prevent transplant tourism: the interrelated experience of The Philippines and Israel
We describe the parallel changes that have taken place in recent years in two countries, Israel and The Philippines, the former once an “exporter” of transplant tourists and the latter once an “importer” of tr...
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The Declaration of Istanbul—early impact and future potential
The Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism was formulated at an international meeting held in 2008 with the aim of promoting the welfare of living organ donors in the context of im...
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Minimizing ciclosporin in renal transplant recipients on daclizumab, mycophenolate and steroids
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Tissue Ty**, Crossmatching and the Allocation of Cadaveric Kidney Transplants
This chapter deals with the relevance of the major histocompatibility complex (MFC) to the results of clinical transplantations and its role in public policy decisions regarding the allocation of donor spares.
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Kidney Transplantation
The surgical technique of renal transplantation has not changed significantly since the first successful kidney transplants were performed nearly forty years ago [1]. However, improvements in dialysis, antibio...
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Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy in Clinical Renal Transplantation
Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is a new technique which is being applied with increasing frequency as a clinical and investigational tool in kidney transplantation. FNAB is a means of sampling cells from...
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Fluid and Electrolyte Disorders Associated with Orthotopic Liver Transplantation
Following the NIH Consensus Development Conference on Liver Transplantation (1) in 1984 there has been a rapid increase in the use of transplantation to treat end stage liver disease (2). As a result it has be...
