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Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiotoxic Treatment Risks in Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Higher doses of anthracyclines and heart‐relevant radiotherapy increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. This study assessed CVD and CVD risk factors among adult childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) across cardiotoxic treatment risk groups and examined associations between lifestyle behaviors and treatment risks.
Ruijie Li +6 more
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Comparison of IL2, IL6, and TNFα Levels in Brain-Dead and Living Kidney Donors and their Relationship with Early Renal Graft Function in Kidney Recipients in Namazi Hospital, Shiraz in 2008-9 [PDF]
فصلنامه دانشگاه علوم پزشکی جهرم, 2011 Introduction:Brain death results in increased activity of cytokines which may interfere with the transplanted renal function. The aim of the present study is to assess the cytokine levels in brain-dead and living kidney donors as well as their ...
Reza Sahraei +4 more
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MULTISPIRAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IN DONORS EVALUATION FOR LIVING RELATED LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
Вестник трансплантологии и искусственных органов, 2009 The purpose was to determine the possibilities of Multispiral computed tomography (MSCT) in evaluation of potential living liver related donors. A total of 104 potential donors were examined with «Siemens» Somatom «Sensation-64» MSCT-scanner.
N. N. Abramova +2 more
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020 Background Kidney transplant improves patients’ survival and quality of life. Worldwide, concern about the equality of access to the renal transplant wait-list is increasing. In Iran, patients have the choice to be placed on either the living or deceased-
Abbas Basiri +12 more
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The Kidney Exchange Game [PDF]
, 2005 The most effective treatment for kidney failure that is currently known is transplantation. As the number of cadaveric donors is not sufficient and kidneys from living donors are often not suitable for immunological reasons, there are attempts to ...
Cechlárová, Katarína +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ongoing evidence indicates increased risk of sarcopenic obesity among children and young people (CYP) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often beginning early in treatment, persisting into survivorship. This review evaluates current literature on body composition in CYP with ALL during and after treatment.
Lina A. Zahed +5 more
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The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, 2019 Background Hepatic steatosis in living donors for liver transplantation causes morbidity of both donor and recipient. This study aims at evaluating magnetic resonance proton density fat fraction technique (MR PDFF) in quantitative evaluation of living ...
Fatma Mohamed Sherif +3 more
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Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Despite professional consensus regarding the importance of open communication with pediatric cancer patients about their disease, actual practice patterns of disclosure are understudied. Extant literature suggests a significant proportion of children are not told about their diagnosis/prognosis, which is purported to negatively ...
Rachel A. Kentor +12 more
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Medicina, 2022 Background and Objectives: Although many studies have reported that kidney donation is not physically harmful to living kidney donors, there are few studies on the psychological changes that they experience, especially post-traumatic growth.
Younghui Hwang, Kyoungok Min, Jihyun Oh
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Neuroblastoma (NB) with central nervous system (CNS) metastases is rare at diagnosis, but occurs more often during relapse/progression. Patients with CNS metastases face a dismal prognosis, with no standardized curative treatment available.
Vicente Santa‐Maria Lopez +13 more
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