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Turkish Journal of NephrologyBackground: Membranous nephropathy (MN) is an autoimmune disease in which circulating autoantibodies bind to a podocyte antigen, causing nephrotic syndrome. Despite several treatment options, their long-term benefits are still not established. The aim of
Marios Papasotiriou +5 more
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European Journal of Medical ResearchObjective To investigate the clinical characteristics, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis infection after deceased donor kidney transplantation and to analyze the risk factors and prognosis of tuberculosis infection through a paired case–control ...
Hedong Zhang +6 more
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ANALYSIS OF DONOR POTENTIAL OF GENERAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT: THE PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES OF ITS USE
Вестник трансплантологии и искусственных органов, 2009 There were studied the use of donor pool in intensive care unit (ICU) at Moscow Clinical Hospital No 7 as a typical general ICU during the period of 2005–2008.
P. Y. Filiptsev +2 more
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Latent Gaussian Mixture Models for Nationwide Kidney Transplant Center Evaluation [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Five year post-transplant survival rate is an important indicator on quality of care delivered by kidney transplant centers in the United States. To provide a fair assessment of each transplant center, an effect that represents the center-specific care quality, along with patient level risk factors, is often included in the risk adjustment model.
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Minorization-Maximization-based Steepest Ascent for Large-scale Survival Analysis with Time-Varying Effects: Application to the National Kidney Transplant Dataset [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 The time-varying effects model is a flexible and powerful tool for modeling the dynamic changes of covariate effects. However, in survival analysis, its computational burden increases quickly as the number of sample sizes or predictors grows. Traditional methods that perform well for moderate sample sizes and low-dimensional data do not scale to ...
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Maximum Matchings in Graphs for Allocating Kidney Paired Donation [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Relatives and friends of an end-stage renal disease patient who offer to donate a kidney are often found to be incompatible with their intended recipients. Kidney paired donation matches one patient and his incompatible donor with another patient and donor in the same situation for an organ exchange.
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Cell Transplantation, 2004 Here we report on the impact of completely unpurified islet transplantation on the portal vein pressure (PVP) and the hepatic biochemistry in the peritransplant period and on follow-up.
Sung Ho Hyon +9 more
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Successful pregnancy in peritoneal dialysis: a case report
Bulletin de la Dialyse à DomicileIntroduction: Conception in dialysis patients is a rare event. In peritoneal dialysis (PD), it is exceptional due to the technique’s short half-life, as these are young women who are often waiting for a transplant project.
Nada El Kadiri +5 more
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Optimizing Hard-to-Place Kidney Allocation: A Machine Learning Approach to Center Ranking [PDF]
arXivKidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for end-stage renal disease, yet the scarcity of donors and inefficiencies in allocation systems create major bottlenecks, resulting in prolonged wait times and alarming mortality rates. Despite their severe scarcity, timely and effective interventions to prevent non-utilization of life-saving organs ...
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Renal FailureAnti-human thymocyte globulin-Fresenius (ATG-F) is frequently utilized to achieve successful induction for kidney transplantation recipients. This study aimed to examine the association between the ATG-F dose-to-recipient-weight ratio (ADR) and the risk ...
Shujuan Li +4 more
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