Background: Kidney transplantation (KT) is the treatment of choice for end-stage renal disease patients. The spouse is a major donor in living KT. Clinical outcomes of spousal donor KT are not inferior to those of living related donor KT.
Woo Yeong Park +6 more
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Comparative susceptibility of mosquito populations in North Queensland, Australia to oral infection with dengue virus. [PDF]
Dengue is the most prevalent arthropod-borne virus, with at least 40% of the world's population at risk of infection each year. In Australia, dengue is not endemic, but viremic travelers trigger outbreaks involving hundreds of cases.
Anderson +47 more
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Objective To analyze ABO system hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN) and its influencing factors in Obstetrics Department of our hospital.
Shuling DONG +5 more
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Human Renal Homotransplantation in the Presence of Blood Group Incompatibilities. [PDF]
Although red cell antigens are not thought to contribute to the homograft rejection process. there has been general insistence that human renal homografting should be restrieted to those cases in which the major blood groups are identical in the donor and recipient patients(1–3). Inasmuch as the red cell antigens are widely distributed in human tissues,
Starzl, TE, Marchioro, TL, Waddell, WR
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Transfusion reaction in a case with the rare Bombay blood group
Bombay phenotype is extremely rare in Caucasian with an incidence of 1 in 250,000. When individuals with the Bombay phenotype need blood transfusion, they can receive only autologous blood or blood from another Bombay blood group. Transfusing blood group
Hayedeh Javadzadeh Shahshahani +2 more
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Overcoming high pre-transplant isoagglutinin titers using high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin, salvage plasmapheresis, and booster rituximab without splenectomy in ABO-incompatible living donor liver transplantation: a case report [PDF]
High pre-transplant isoagglutinin is a risk factor for antibody-mediated rejection in ABO-incompatible living donor liver transplantation. A 55-year-old man with alcoholic liver cirrhosis underwent ABO-incompatible living donor liver transplantation. The
Hyung Hwan Moon
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HLA and cross-reactive antigen group matching for cadaver kidney allocation [PDF]
Background. Allocation of cadaver kidneys by graded human leukocyte antigen (HLA) compatibility scoring arguably has had little effect on overall survival while prejudicing the transplant candidacy of African-American and other hard to match populations.
Allan Donner +54 more
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A case of successful late steroid withdrawal after ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation
Few data exist regarding steroid withdrawal in ABO-incompatible (ABO-i) kidney transplantation (KT). Here, we report a case of steroid withdrawal after ABO-i KT. A 46-year-old man diagnosed with Henoch-Schonlein purpura received ABO-i KT from his 42-year-
Jeong Min Cho +5 more
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Wolbachia and arbovirus inhibition in mosquitoes [PDF]
Wolbachia is a maternally inherited intracellular bacteria that can manipulate the reproduction of their insect hosts, and cytoplasmic incompatibility allows them to spread through mosquito populations.
Sinkins, Steven P.
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Severe Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia; Causes and Contributing Factors Leading to Exchange Transfusion at Ghaem Hospital in Mashhad [PDF]
"nHyperbilirubinemia is common in neonates; it can have a serious rising course. Due to its critical morbidity called "kernicterus", severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia causes which lead to exchange transfusion, should be clarified.
Farhad Heydarian, Mina Majdi
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