Conversion to Sirolimus Therapy in Kidney Transplant Recipients with New Onset Diabetes Mellitus after Transplantation by Massimiliano Veroux, Tiziano Tallarita, Daniela Corona, Nunziata Sinagra, Alessia Giaquinta, Domenico Zerbo, Carmela Guerrieri, Antonino D'Assoro, Sebastiano Cimino, Pierfrancesco Veroux

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Spontaneous Clearance of Hepatitis C after Liver and Renal Transplantation by CH Dale, P Burns, M McCutcheon, R Hernandez-Alejandro, PJ Marotta

“…Spontaneous clearance of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is rare in immunocompromised patients, such as those who have undergone organ transplantation. It has been recognized that patients receiving liver transplantation for HCV-related disease have decreased graft and patient survival compared with those transplanted for other etiologies. …”
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Outcomes of Adult Liver Retransplantation: A Canadian National Database Analysis by Peter D. Yoon, Madhukar S. Patel, Carla F. Murillo Perez, Tommy Ivanics, Marco P.A.W. Claasen, Hala Muaddi, David Wallace, Bettina Hansen, Gonzalo Sapisochin

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Value of original and modified pathological scoring systems for prognostic prediction in paraffin-embedded donor kidney core biopsy by Jinghong Tan, Huanxi Zhang, Longshan Liu, Jun Li, Qian Fu, Yan Li, Chenglin Wu, Ronghai Deng, Jiali Wang, Bowen Xu, Wenfang Chen, Shicong Yang, Changxi Wang

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Disseminated Histoplasmosis, Pulmonary Tuberculosis, and Cytomegalovirus Disease in a Renal Transplant Recipient after Infection with SARS-CoV-2 by Carvallo-Venegas Mauricio, Fuentes-López Elsa Angélica, Andrade-Ortega Antonio de Jesús, Torres-Baranda José Rodrigo, Carrasco-Carrizosa Aldo, Cerrillos-Gutierrez José Ignacio, Andrade-Sierra Jorge

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Cutaneous Coccidian Parasitic Infection in a Renal Transplant Recipient by Ramzeen Nilam Hameed, V. Narayanan Unni, K. Bipi, Anup Warrier, Joe Thomas

“…One of the leading causes of mortality in solid organ transplant patients is infections, with the other two being cardiovascular disease and malignancy. …”
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Epstein-Barr Virus Infection in Transplant Recipients: Sumary of a Workshop on Surveillance, Prevention and Treatment by Upton Allen, Caroline Alfieri, Jutta Preiksaitis, Atul Humar, Dorothy Moore, Bruce Tapiero, Raymond Tellier, Michael Green, Dele Davies, Diane Hébert, Sheila Weitzman, Martin Petric, Kevan Jacobson, Canadian PTLD Workshop Group #x2013; 1999

“…Diseases caused by the Epstein-Barr virus are of great significance among organ transplant recipients. One of these diseases, post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease, is a major complication among organ transplant recipients. …”
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A refined kidney tumor nephrometry system employed to screen pediatric patients who are eligible for nephron sparing surgery by Mingchuan Huang, Yingchun Fei, Zhihai Zhong, Hong Jiang, Longshan Liu, Juncheng Liu, Huanxi Zhang, Jun Li, Zhe Xu, Pengfei Gao, Pengfei Gao, Changxi Wang, Changxi Wang, Changxi Wang

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Basiliximab is superior to low dose rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin in pediatric kidney transplant recipients: The younger, the better by Lan Zhu, Lei Zhang, Wenjun Shang, Wenhua Liu, Rula Sa, Zhiliang Guo, Longshan Liu, Jinghong Tan, Hengxi Zhang, Yonghua Feng, Wenyu Zhao, Wenqi Cong, Jianyong Wu, Changxi Wang, Gang Chen, Sihan Zhou

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The Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Accurately Predicts 90-Day Liver Transplant Wait-List Mortality in Atlantic Canada by Paul Douglas Renfrew, Hude Quan, Christopher James Doig, Elijah Dixon, Michele Molinari

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Spontaneous Complete Regression of Colon Cancer Liver Metastases in a Lung Transplant Patient: A Case Report by Koen Zwart, Dieuwertje Ruigrok, Magda de Graaf-Bos, Roel Goldschmeding, Miriam Koopman, Guus M. Bol

“…Cancer has become an important cause of death in solid organ transplant patients. The cause of malignancies in patients with solid organ transplants is multifactorial, but the use of intensive immunosuppression is regarded as an important factor. …”
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Recent advances in systemic therapy for advanced biliary tract cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis using reconstructed RCT survival data by Zhihao Li, Daniel Aliseda, Owen Jones, Luckshi Rajendran, Christian Magyar, Robert Grant, Grainne M. O’Kane, Anna Saborowski, Gonzalo Sapisochin, Arndt Vogel

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Challenges of Diagnosing Severe Ehrlichiosis in Orthotopic Liver Transplant Recipients by Melissa Parkinson, Spandana Vuyyuru, Jay Patel, Chinelo Animalu

“…In recent solid organ transplant recipients, acute febrile illness is usually a source of grave concern and a diagnostic dilemma, especially if no response is noted after initiation of broad antimicrobial therapy. …”
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NOL-7 serves as a potential prognostic-related biomarker for hepatocellular carcinoma by Qiucheng Lei, Yingchun Huang, Feiwen Deng, Huazhen Zheng, Xitao Hong, Peng Wang, Jin Lv, Huanwei Chen, Zhenling Ji

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New Diagnostics for Fungal Infections in Transplant Infectious Disease: A Systematic Review by Apurva Akkad, Neha Nanda

“…Fungal infections are common in highly immunosuppressed, solid organ transplant recipients. They can be quite difficult to diagnose in a timely manner; thus, we present a review of current studies focusing on broad categories of molecular diagnostics, i.e., metagenomic sequencing, magnetic resonance, and gas chromatography mass spectrometry. …”
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Identification of tacrolimus-related genes in familial combined hyperlipidemia and development of a diagnostic model using bioinformatics analysis by Yuan Xu, Hongfei He, Haiyang Li

“…Background: Clinical observations have revealed that patients undergoing organ transplantation administered tacrolimus often experience abnormal lipid metabolism with serious consequences. …”
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Cryptosporidiosis in a Zoonotic Gastrointestinal Disorder Perspective by Thivya Balendran, Devika Iddawela, Sajanee Lenadora

“…Cryptosporidium infection is highly prevalent among immunocompromised patients with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, cancer, primary immunodeficiency, and organ transplant recipients. Comprehensive knowledge about Cryptosporidium infection provides the means for efficient diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. …”
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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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