Donor Selection, Management, and Procurement for Lung Transplantation [PDF]
Journal of Chest Surgery, 2022 Lung transplantation is a life-saving procedure in patients with end-stage lung disease. However, it inherently depends on the availability of donor organs.
Woo Sik Yu, JeongA Son
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Donor selection for KIR alloreactivity is associated with superior survival in haploidentical transplant with PTCy [PDF]
Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 With the continuous increase in the use of haploidentical donors for transplantation, the selection of donors becomes increasingly important. Haploidentical donors have been selected primarily based on clinical characteristics, while the effects of ...
Jun Zou +19 more
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Donor/recipient ascending aortic diameter ratio as a novel potential metric for donor selection and improved clinical outcomes in heart transplantation: a propensity score-matched study [PDF]
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023 BackgroundDonor/recipient size matching is paramount in heart transplantation. Body weight, height, body mass index, body surface area, and predicted heart mass (PHM) ratios are generally used in size matching.
Matiullah Masroor +4 more
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Human leukocyte antigen evolutionary divergence as a novel risk factor for donor selection in acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients undergoing haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation [PDF]
Frontiers in ImmunologyIntroductionThe human leukocyte antigen (HLA) evolutionary divergence (HED) reflects immunopeptidome diversity and has been shown to predict the response of tumors to immunotherapy.
Xing-Yu Cao +4 more
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Addressing the translation gap in SCT donor selection [PDF]
Frontiers in ImmunologyMachine learning (ML) offers genuine promise for improving donor selection in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (SCT), yet the gap between model development and clinical adoption remains wide.
David Higgins +9 more
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Turkish Hematologists’ Preferences for Related Donor Selection: Results of a Multicenter Survey [PDF]
Turkish Journal of HematologyAllogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) is a widely utilized treatment for various hematological diseases. While selection criteria for unrelated donors are well established, there is a lack of consistency and standardization in ...
Sıdıka Gülkan Özkan +5 more
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The Potential Significance of ABO Genotyping for Donor Selection in Kidney Transplantation
Frontiers in Immunology, 2020 BackgroundThe ABO blood group system is clinically important in kidney transplantation, but ABO genotyping fails to attract sufficient attention in some countries and regions.
Yi Zhou +14 more
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Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Donor Selection: Contemporary Guidelines from the NMDP/CIBMTR [PDF]
Transplantation and Cellular TherapyMitchell Horwitz +2 more
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DONOR SELECTION: GENERAL ASPECTS
Journal of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, 2021 THE BRAZILIAN SOCIETY FOR BLOOD AND MARROW TRANSPLANTATION (SBTMO) PRESENTS THE BRAZILIAN GUIDELINES ON HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL ...
Simone Cunha Maradei Pereira +3 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is an effective procedure against Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), with promising but still suboptimal performance in other diseases, such as ulcerative colitis (UC). The recipient’s mucosal immune response
Manuel Ponce-Alonso +17 more
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