Are there Geographical Disparities in Access to Liver Transplantation in Atlantic Canada? by Paul Douglas Renfrew, Michele Molinari

“…OBJECTIVE: To characterize the patient population served by Atlantic Canada’s Multi-Organ Transplant Program liver transplant service over the first five years of activity in its current iteration.…”
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Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma from Transplanted Kidney with Complete Response to an Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor by Ryan S. Chiang, Ashton A. Connor, Brant A. Inman, Wen-Chi Foo, David N. Howell, John F. Madden, Matthew J. Ellis, Aparna S. Rege, Michael R. Harrison

“…Immunotherapy using checkpoint inhibitors can serve as a novel treatment option for patients in the clinical predicament of having a solid organ transplant and simultaneous metastatic malignancy. …”
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Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis in a Renal Transplant Patient by Jill Tinmouth, Jeffrey Baker, Geoffrey Gardiner

“…To the best of our knowledge, this is the 11th reported case of gastrointestinal mucormycosis in a solid organ transplant patient. The pathophysiology, incidence and prognosis of this disease are discussed.…”
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Cryptococcal Meningitis in an Immunocompetent Patient with a Ventriculo-Pleural Shunt by Raynieri Fernandez, Jose Henao, Catherine Creticos

“…It is an opportunistic infection seen in patients with impaired cell immunity, most frequently in HIV patients and solid organ transplant recipients; however, it can occur in patients with no apparent immunodeficiency. …”
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Fusarium Infection in a Kidney Transplant Recipient Successfully Treated with Voriconazole by Ahmed M. Alkhunaizi, Ali M. Bazzi, Ali A. Rabaan, Elwaleed A. Ahmed

“…Fusarium infections in solid-organ transplant recipients are rare and carry high mortality. …”
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A Case of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in an HIV-Positive Adult by Aakriti Gupta, Purav Mody, Shefali Gupta

“…However, it can also cause more severe disease in young children and older adults comprising of organ transplant patients with immunocompromised status. …”
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Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disease Presenting as an Extracranial Mass by Reuben J. Arasaratnam, Alejandro Restrepo

“…Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease is a serious complication following stem cell and solid organ transplantation. Early recognition of the disease is important in facilitating timely therapy and improving long-term outcomes. …”
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Dual bombard by Cytomegalovirus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a renal transplantee by Cinthujah Balachander, Indira Ananthapadmanabasamy, Ramasubramanian Viswanathan, Poongodi Santhanakumarasamy

“…In the first year following an organ transplant, more than 80% of patients encounter a minimum of one occurrence of infection. …”
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Yield of Screening Colonoscopy in Renal Transplant Candidates by Turki AlAmeel, Bahaa Bseiso, Meteb M AlBugami, Sami AlMomen, Lee Stuart Roth

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Comparison of time-to-event machine learning models in predicting biliary complication and mortality rate in liver transplant patients by Aref Andishgar, Sina Bazmi, Kamran B. Lankarani, Seyed Alireza Taghavi, Mohammad Hadi Imanieh, Gholamreza Sivandzadeh, Samira Saeian, Nazanin Dadashpour, Alireza Shamsaeefar, Mahdi Ravankhah, Hamed Nikoupour Deylami, Reza Tabrizi, Mohammad Hossein Imanieh

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Successful Use of Posaconazole to Treat Invasive Cutaneous Fungal Infection in a Liver Transplant Patient on Sirolimus by Randah Dahlan, Ameen Patel, Shariq Haider

“…Fungi are an important and common cause of cutaneous infections affecting solid organ transplant recipients. These infections can represent a primary site of infection with the potential for dissemination, or a manifestation of metastatic infection. …”
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Time to Make the Change from ‘Primary Biliary Cirrhosis’ to ‘Primary Biliary Cholangitis’ by Angela C Cheung, Aldo Montano-Loza, Mark Swain, Catherine Vincent, Eberhard Renner, Morris Sherman, Harry LA Janssen, Andrew L Mason

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Analysis of Optimal Health-Related Quality of Life Measures in Patients Waitlisted for Lung Transplantation by Junko Tokuno, Toyofumi F Chen-Yoshikawa, Toru Oga, Takahiro Oto, Tomoyo Okawa, Yoshinori Okada, Miki Akiba, Masaki Ikeda, Daisuke Nakajima, Masatsugu Hamaji, Hideki Motoyama, Akihiro Aoyama, Maki Isomi, Kazuo Chin, Hiroshi Date

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Successfully Treated Norovirus- and Sapovirus-Associated Diarrhea in Three Renal Transplant Patients by Noha Ghusson, Gustavo Vasquez

“…Infectious diarrhea remains an underestimated yet significant cause of morbidity in solid organ transplant patients. Norovirus and sapovirus are often responsible for this presentation. …”
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Klebsiella ozaenae Bacteremia in a Kidney Transplant Recipient by Shree Kumar, Talal Alfaadhel, Meteb M. AlBugami

“…Infections remain a dreadful complication after solid organ transplantation. Almost all microorganisms could cause this complication, including unusual ones. …”
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Neutropenic Enterocolitis in a Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipient on Multiple Immunosuppressants by Emily E. Miller, Leigh Christopher Reardon

“…Although NE does not typically affect solid organ transplant patients, this patient had a variety of risk factors that may have predisposed her to development of NE such as severe neutropenia, supratherapeutic tacrolimus level, immunosuppression with cytotoxic agents, and elevated Epstein-Barr viral load. …”
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Evaluation and Transplantation of a SARS-CoV-2 Seropositive Kidney Candidate by Maya C. Graves, Sapna A. Mehta, Bonnie E. Lonze, Nicole M. Ali

“…The COVID-19 pandemic affected transplant center activity in areas with high number of cases such as New York City and prompted reevaluation of patients awaiting organ transplant diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection. To resume safe transplantation at our center, we found it necessary to (1) identify transplant candidates with possible exposure to or history of COVID-19 infection, (2) outline a clinical and laboratory assessment to determine adequate clinical recovery from COVID-19 for transplantation, and (3) determine whether the possibility of perioperative COVID-19 transmission from the patient to staff would pose unacceptable risk. …”
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Everolimus for Compassionate Use in Multiple Basal Cell Carcinomas by Laura Eibenschutz, Delia Colombo, Caterina Catricalà

“…Everolimus is an inhibitor of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and has been shown to have antineoplastic activity in addition to its use as an immunosuppressive agent for the prevention of organ transplant rejection. We report the use of everolimus for the compassionate treatment of four elderly, nontransplant patients presenting with multiple basal cell carcinomas (BCC). …”
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Invasive Microascus trigonosporus Species Complex Pulmonary Infection in a Lung Transplant Recipient by Kelly E. Schoeppler, Martin R. Zamora, Noelle M. Northcutt, Gerard R. Barber, Gayle O’Malley-Schroeder, Dennis M. Lyu

“…Because of the high incidence of morbidity and mortality associated with invasive fungal infections, antifungal prophylaxis is often used in solid organ transplant recipients. However, this prophylaxis is not universally effective and may contribute to the selection of emerging, resistant pathogens. …”
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High on Cannabis and Calcineurin Inhibitors: A Word of Warning in an Era of Legalized Marijuana by Naomi Hauser, Tanmay Sahai, Rocco Richards, Todd Roberts

“…The drug is commonly used to prevent graft rejection in solid organ transplant and graft-versus-host disease in hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients. …”
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