Browsing by Subject "Kidney transplantation"
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2015)© 2015, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved.Background: Kidney transplantation is the best treatment for end stage kidney disease. The allograft allocation system considers immunological factors and time in ...
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(MDPI, 2020)Arsenic is toxic to many organ systems, the kidney being the most sensitive target organ. We aimed to investigate whether, in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs), the nephrotoxic exposure to arsenic could represent an ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2018)Nephropatic cystinosis (NC) is a rare disease associated with pathogenic variants in the CTNS gene, with a common variant that consists of a 57kb-deletion involving CTNS. Patients with NC that are treated with cysteamine ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2020)Background It currently remains understudied whether low consumption of fruits and vegetables after kidney transplantation may be a modifiable cardiovascular risk factor. We aimed to investigate the associations between ...
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(2006)Background: Cardiovascular risk, growth failure and the new immunosuppressive drugs, have encouraged steroid withdrawal or total avoidance with promising results in renal transplant (Tx) immunosuppression. Aim: To evaluate ...
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(1996)One hundred evaluations of weigth/heigth and heigth/age were performed in 23 uremic children (17 under ciatysis treatment and 1 1 ofterenal transplantation) aged 6 to 14 year-old along a seven year follow up. Statistica ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)© 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All right reserved. Background: Kidney transplantation of expanded criteria deceased donors (DCE) has become a common clinical practice. However, DCE outcomes are inferior compared to ...
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(MDPI, 2022)The nephrotoxic effects of heavy metals have gained increasing scientific attention in the past years. Recent studies suggest that heavy metals, including cadmium, lead, and arsenic, are detrimental to kidney transplant ...
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(MDPI, 2021)Recent studies have shown that depletion of vitamin C is frequent in outpatient kidney transplant recipients (KTR) and that vitamin C is inversely associated with risk of death. Whether plasma vitamin C is associated with ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2021)Kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for end-stage kidney disease. It is, however, not devoid of complications. Delayed graft function related to ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI), calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) ...
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(BioMed Central Ltd., 2014)Background: Contradictory evidence has been published on the effects of steroid treatments on the outcomes of kidney and liver transplantation from brain dead (BD) donors. Our study aimed to evaluate this disparity by ...
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(Springer, 2018)Background To describe the factors affecting the incidence of renal replacement therapy (RRT) among children, information from RRT registries is required. We aimed to give an overview of existing pediatric RRT registries ...
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Renal transplant and chronic rejection in pediatrics Trasplante renal y rechazo crónico en pediatría (1998)The rapid advances in immunobiology, pharmacology and molecular biology have made successful renal transplantation the optimal therapeutic modality for adults and children, reaching a near -90% of patient-graft survival ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2016)Background: Kidney transplantation of expanded criteria deceased donors (DCE) has become a common clinical practice. However, DCE outcomes are inferior compared to kidney transplants from standard criteria donors (DCS). ...
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(Elsevier, 2021)Background: Serum uric acid (SUA) is associated with fasting glucose in healthy subjects, and prospective epidemological studies have shown that elevated SUA is associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes. Whether ...
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(Biomed Central, 2016)Background: Donor brain death (BD) is an independent risk factor for graft survival in recipients. While in some patients BD results from a fast increase in intracranial pressure, usually associated with trauma, in others, ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2015)Background: Kidney transplantation is the best treatment for end stage kidney disease. The allograft allocation system considers immunological factors and time in waiting list, but not the age of donors or recipients, in ...