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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background L‐asparaginase is a critical component in treatment protocols for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Acute pancreatitis reactions can necessitate delays and, in some cases, discontinuation of L‐asparaginase, which compromises outcomes.
Edward J. Raack +39 more
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Preoperative Comorbidities and Outcomes of Medically Complex Living Kidney Donors
Kidney International Reports, 2020 Introduction: Recent reports have described an increased risk of renal disease in living kidney donors compared with the general population. However, these reports do not detail the outcomes of medically complex living donors (MCLDs) with preoperative ...
Takahisa Hiramitsu +9 more
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Cigarette smoking in living kidney donors: donor and recipient outcomes [PDF]
, 2014 Background Living kidney donor pools are expanding with the use of “medically complex” donors. Whether or not to include cigarette smokers as living kidney donors remains unclear.
Cosio +8 more
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Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy
Urologic Clinics of North America, 1999 Live donor renal transplantation has many advantages including greater graft and patient survival, shorter waiting periods, improved human leukocyte antigen matching, and less cold ischemia. Until recently, disincentives from the operation, such as prolonged hospitalization, postoperative pain, and significant convalescence, have deterred live donor ...
M D, Fabrizio +3 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Malignant rhabdoid tumor of the kidney (MRTK) is a rare, aggressive tumor seen in young children. The optimal timing of resection for locally advanced tumors is not well‐defined. The purpose of this study is to evaluate modern oncologic outcomes and the impact of surgical timing. Methods A multicenter retrospective review was performed
Hannah N. Rinehardt +76 more
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Post-Operative Complications in Living Liver Donors: A Single-Center Experience in China. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The gap between the growing demand for available organs and the cadaveric organs facilitates the adoption of living donor liver transplantation. We retrospectively identified and evaluated the post-operative complications as per the modified Clavien ...
Zhongquan Sun +10 more
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Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Chirurgia, 2017 In 50 years after the first liver transplantation, the medical world has witnessed the liver transplantation to become one of the widely recognized and leading branches of surgery. In this period, liver transplantation combined with surgical technique, patient selection, advancements in anesthesia and postoperative care and increased experience has ...
Birkan, Bozkurt +2 more
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Adult‐onset Still's disease (AOSD) complicated by macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) carries substantial mortality. The role of therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) remains uncertain. Methods We retrospectively analyzed patients with AOSD‐MAS treated with TPE at a single‐center.
Masataka Ueda +15 more
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Adaptive Personality Traits and Psychosocial Correlates among Living Kidney Donors
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2017 Since living kidney donors have repeatedly been shown to be mentally more healthy compared to the general population, they might also exhibit more adaptive personality characteristics.
Iris Pollmann +8 more
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Paired and altruistic kidney donation in the UK: Algorithms and experimentation [PDF]
, 2014 We study the computational problem of identifying optimal sets of kidney exchanges in the UK. We show how to expand an integer programming-based formulation due to Roth et al.
Manlove, David, O'Malley, Gregg
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