Ask the Experts - Heart Transplantation in Patients With Lupus?

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Kidney transplantation in patients with lupus shows excellent results provided that lupus is inactive at the moment of transplantation. Is the same true for lupus in heart transplantation?

Can Higher Levels of HLA-G Improve Liver Transplant Outcome?

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Dr. Ron Shapiro reports on a study indicating that increased levels of HLA-G are associated with tolerance of liver grafts and suggests this finding may impact management of other organ recipients.

Can HCV+ Kidneys Safely Go to HCV+ Recipients?

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Dr. Ron Shapiro discusses a study assessing whether HCV+ serology affects long-term outcomes in kidney transplant recipients.

Management of Hepatitis C in Liver Transplant Recipients

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Limited overall efficacy of interferon-based therapy in the transplant setting highlights the urgent need for new drug therapies.

Letter to the Editor: Ask the Experts, Medscape Transplantation

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Director of Renal Transplantation at UPMC gives kudos to Ask the Experts.

Ask the Experts - Polyomavirus Infection After Renal Transplantation?

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When and what diagnostic procedures should be done on follow-up of a patient who lost renal function after a verified polyomavirus infection in a renal graft?

Brain Death and Transplantation: The Japanese

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The Japanese have grappled with the ethical, legal, and moral issues surrounding brain death for over 30 years. While the 1997 Organ Transplant Law legalized organ procurement from brain-dead donors, the controversy surrounding this issue persists.

Refractive Surgery Advances

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This report from the 2003 annual meeting of ASCRS highlights such advances in cataract and refractive surgery as wavefront technology and improved intraocular lenses.

Clinical Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion

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Does ex vivo lung perfusion have the capacity to make unacceptable donor lungs acceptable for recipients?

Conversion from Cyclosporine to Tacrolimus Improves

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Tacrolimus will be the drug of choice when long-term treatment with a calcineurin inhibitor is indicated for most renal transplant recipients.

Liver Transplant Survival by Waiting Time in HCC

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Does a prolonged waiting list time for hepatocellular carcinoma candidates have a negative impact in posttransplant survival?

Alemtuzumab and Tacrolimus Monotherapy After Renal Transplantantation

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Is alemtuzumab induction with tacrolimus monotherapy as safe and efficacious in renal transplantation as a tacrolimus-based triple-drug regimen?

Survival Benefit of Repeat Liver Transplantation in US

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Learn more about allocating scarce liver grafts, with MELD.

Ask the Experts - HBV in Renal Transplantation?

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A kidney allograft from an asymptomatic hepatitis B virus (HBV) surface antigen (HBSAg)-positive donor was transplanted into a recipient who was HBSAg-negative. What is the expected course, especially after beginning immunosuppressive therapy?

Subclinical Inflammation One Year After Renal Transplantation

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Do renal transplant patients benefit from early detection of inflammatory activity?

Reducing Infection in Solid Organ Transplantation

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Review important data to facilitate decisions regarding HIV and HCV nucleic acid testing for solid organ transplant donors.

Donor-Derived Fungal Infections in Organ Transplant

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Donor-derived fungal infections can be associated with serious complications in transplant recipients. How can they be curtailed?

Donor-Specific HLA Antibodies in Liver Transplant Recipients

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How does de novo DSA development after liver transplantation affect outcomes of death and graft loss?

Payment for Living Donor (Vendor) Kidneys

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The authors studied what amount of payment for organ donation would be cost-effective for society, i.e. what costs would be saved by removing a patient from the waiting list using a paid organ donor-vendor.

Ask the Experts - Monitoring Patients With HCV Infection?

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Regarding patients who are hepatitis C virus (HCV) core antibody positive by ELISA III and HCV core antibody positive by RIBA (NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4 hSOD), what is the significance of these epitopes and their relationship to c22, c23, c33, c33c, c100, c200? Also, should I continue monitoring patients b