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The simplistic definition of polypharmacy, often designated as the concomitant use of five medications or more, does not distinguish appropriate from inappropriate polypharmacy. Classifying polypharmacy accord...
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The objective of this study was to develop and validate a short, self-administered questionnaire to assess diet quality in clinical settings, using the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) as reference.
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Dietary recommendations for the prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus include the message to consume 400 g fruit and vegetables per day. Measurement of habitual diet is inherently difficult, yet errors due to...
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Development and implementation of the next generation of Canada’s operational air quality (AQ) forecast model is underway at Environment Canada (EC). The goal of this project is the replacement in 2008 of the ...
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A critical shortage in the kidney donor pool has led to a renewed interest in non-heart beating donors (NHBDs). As warm ischaemic tissue injury is a characteristic of NHBD, it is therefore crucial to screen s...
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Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne restarted their non-heartbeating donor (NHBD) programme in September 1998 using machine perfusion, due to early poor results with conventional cold storage (45 % graft su...
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Chronic rejection is a major cause of graft dysfunction following kidney transplantation. This fibroproliferative disease may be promoted by overproduction of transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β). Previous st...
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To analyse the contribution of cytomegalovirus (CMV) serology to long-term graft survival in cadaveric kidney transplantation, 404 transplants from a single centre were divided into four subgroups with respec...
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Whilst debate still continues about the best use of kidneys from small donors, the techniques used have been varied because of the high vascular thromboses rates and ureteric leak rates. The method described ...
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Patients with an augmented or diverted urinary system are considered higher risk recipients in view of increased technical problems and infective complications. We studied the long-term renal graft function a...
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The development of obliterative bronchiolitis is a common cause for failure of lung allografts. Fibrinogenesis can occur for a number of different reasons but some groups have suggested that cyclosporin A (Cs...
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The efficacy and safety of tacrolimus- and cyclosporine-based immunosuppressive regimens were compared in a prospectively defined subgroup of kidney transplant recipients from the European, open, multicentre...
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Twenty-five patients with refractory rejection following renal transplantation were converted from cyclosporin to tacrolimus in an attempt to salvage the allografts. All patients had received two or three pul...
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Choledochocholedochostomy (CCD) with a 7 fr/8 fr Cotton Leung internal biliary stent removed at endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERC) 3 months following orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) was the te...
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University of Wisconsin solution (UW) is now used widely for the preservation of livers for transplantation. However, the use of commercial solutions has added considerably to the cost. We were able to produc...
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Five patients with cyclosporin-related haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) following cadaveric renal transplantation were converted from cyclosporin- to tacrolimus-based immunosuppression. All patients had bioc...