A 36-Year-Old Renal Transplant Recipient Female with Leg Ulcer: A Case Report and Brief Review by Ali Monfared, Eftekhari Hojat, Seyed Alireza Mesbah, Abbas Darjani, Seyyede Zeinab Azimi

“…Opportunistic infections are common in organ transplant recipients. After 6 months of transplantation, patients have the highest risk of opportunistic infections such as cryptococcosis. …”
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Conservative Management of Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer in Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Patient by Logan D. Glosser, Brandon S. Zakeri, Conner V. Lombardi, Obi O. Ekwenna

“…Introduction. Solid organ transplant increases the risk for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC). …”
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Acute Kidney Injury, Recurrent Seizures, and Thrombocytopenia in a Young Patient with Lupus Nephritis: A Diagnostic Dilemma by Hector Alvarado Verduzco, Anjali Acharya

“…PRES has been associated with multiple conditions such as autoimmune disorders, pregnancy, organ transplant, and thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). …”
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Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Level among Renal Transplant Recipients: A Case Report from Nepal by Kamal Ranabhat, Bhuvan Saud, Saroj Adhikari, Suraj Bhattarai, Rojan Adhikari, Bhoj Raj Luitel, Mahesh Raj Sigdel

“…Globally, SARS-CoV-2 has caused significant public health burden, mainly in patients with underlying comorbidities including both communicable and noncommunicable diseases. Solid organ transplant recipients under immunesupressive medication are also amongst the high risk group. …”
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Mechanism and Treatment Strategy of Osteoporosis after Transplantation by Lei Song, Xu-Biao Xie, Long-Kai Peng, Shao-Jie Yu, Ya-Ting Peng

“…Bone loss after organ transplant is related to adverse effects of immunosuppressants on bone remodeling and bone quality. …”
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Is it safe to proceed with heart transplant in a patient with active tuberculosis? Strategies and challenges based on a case report by Laura Hastenteufel, Marcelo Basso Gazzana, Nadine Clausell, Lívia Adams Goldraich, MD

“…We aimed to emphasize the importance of proper screening of TB in solid organ transplant candidates, as well as to suggest that, in selected patients, it may be safe to proceed with transplant after an initial period of treatment with antituberculous agents.…”
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A Knotless Technique for Kidney Transplantation in the Mouse by Song Rong, Alfor G. Lewis, Uta Kunter, Hermann Haller, Faikah Gueler

“…Mouse models of kidney transplantation are important to study molecular mechanisms of organ transplant rejection as well as to develop new therapeutic strategies aimed at improving allograft survival. …”
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Perceptions of Biosimilars Among Healthcare Providers in Saudi Arabia by Mohammed Alqahtani, Ahmed Al-jedai, Albert Wertheimer

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Gastric Mucormycosis in a Renal Transplant Patient Treated with Isavuconazole Monotherapy by Imran Gani, Atbin Doroodchi, Kristina Falkenstrom, Holly Berry, Won Lee, Laura Mulloy, Muhammad Saeed, Rajan Kapoor

“…Gastrointestinal mucormycosis is a rare infection in solid organ transplant recipients. Our patient, a 79-year-old male, presented with severe dysphagia and odynophagia about 2 weeks after receiving a renal transplant. …”
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Kidney Salvage with Renal Artery Reconstruction after Blunt Traumatic Injury by David G. Jackson, Phillipe Abreu, Manuel Anthony Moutinho, Antonio Marttos, George W. Burke, Nicholas Namias, Gaetano Ciancio

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Fluconazole-Like Compounds as Potential Antifungal Agents: QSAR, Molecular Docking, and Molecular Dynamics Simulation by Farnaz Salehi, Leila Emami, Zahra Rezaei, Soghra Khabnadideh, Behnaz Tajik, Razieh Sabet

“…Today, fungal infection has become more common disease especially in some cases, such as AIDS, cancer, and organ transplant which the immune system is suppressed. …”
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Low agreement and frequent invalid controls in two SARS-CoV-2 T-cell assays in people with compromised immune function. by Annette Audigé, Alain Amstutz, Macé M Schuurmans, Patrizia Amico, Dominique L Braun, Marcel P Stoeckle, Barbara Hasse, René Hage, Dominik Damm, Michael Tamm, Nicolas J Mueller, Huldrych F Günthard, Michael T Koller, Christof M Schönenberger, Alexandra Griessbach, Niklaus D Labhardt, Roger D Kouyos, Alexandra Trkola, Michael Huber, Katharina Kusejko, Heiner C Bucher, Irene A Abela, Matthias Briel, Frédérique Chammartin, Benjamin Speich, Swiss HIV Cohort Study, and the Swiss Transplant Cohort Study

“…For people living with HIV (PWH) and solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients there is limited evidence on the reliability of commercially available T-cell tests. …”
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The Potential of Neonatal Organ Donation in Central Sweden by Emil Bluhme, Ewa Henckel, Boubou Hallberg, Carl Jorns

“…Pediatric organ transplant recipients have a higher risk for wait list mortality due to the scarcity of size matched organs. …”
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Resolution of Mild Ganciclovir-Resistant Cytomegalovirus Disease with Reduced-Dose Cidofovir and CMV-Hyperimmune Globulin by Samir J. Patel, Samantha A. Kuten, Richard J. Knight, Dana M. Hong, A. Osama Gaber

“…Ganciclovir-resistant cytomegalovirus (CMV) is associated with significant morbidity in solid organ transplant recipients. Management of ganciclovir-resistant CMV may be complicated by nephrotoxicity which is commonly observed with recommended therapies and/or rejection induced by “indirect” viral effects or reduction of immunosuppression. …”
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Respiratory Failure due to Possible Donor-Derived Sporothrix schenckii Infection in a Lung Transplant Recipient by Nathan C. Bahr, Katherine Janssen, Joanne Billings, Gabriel Loor, Jaime S. Green

“…De novo and donor-derived invasive fungal infections (IFIs) contribute to morbidity and mortality in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients. Reporting of donor-derived IFIs (DDIFIs) to the Organ Procurement Transplant Network has been mandated since 2005. …”
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Predictors of interferon-gamma release assay results and their association with COVID-19 infection outcomes by S.J.W. Kang, G.W. Eather, F. Qureshi, J.R. Scott

“…The likelihood of an indeterminate IGRA was increased in patients with a history of solid organ transplant and a higher severity of COVID-19 at the time of testing. …”
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Blood Borne Viral Infections in Transplantation: Hepatitis Viruses and Retroviruses by RP Bryce Larke

“…Highly sensitive assays that can be completed very rapidly are needed to ensure greater safely for the recipient of an emergency organ transplant, where time to screen a prospective donor for infectious diseases may be extremely limited.…”
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Isolated Sporothrix schenckii Monoarthritis by Aram Barbaryan, Wissam El Atrouni, Stefania Bailuc, Matthew W. Jones, Maharshi Bhakta, Khaldoun Haj Mahmoud, Aibek E. Mirrakhimov

“…In patients with underlying risk factors (HIV, alcoholism, diabetes mellitus, organ transplant patients, immunosuppressive medications, steroids, and malignancies), it can often have disseminated visceral, osteoarticular, meningeal, and pulmonary involvement. …”
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Time in therapeutic range of tacrolimus in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients is associated with acute graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis by Naoki Yoshikawa, Yukina Ehara, Yusei Yamada, Yuki Matsusaki, Kazuya Shimoda, Ryuji Ikeda

“…Abstract Intra-patient variability in immunosuppressive blood drug concentrations is a potential biomarker in managing organ transplant patients. However, the association between the time in therapeutic range of tacrolimus blood concentrations and its efficacy in preventing graft-versus-host disease remains unknown. …”
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Disseminated Gastrointestinal Basidiobolomycosis: A Case Report with Review of Diagnostic Clues by Neda Soleimani, Mohammad Hossein Anbardar, Hamed Nikoupour, Faranak Derakhshan, Mojtaba Shafiekhani, Sahand Mohammadzadeh, Seyed Mohamad Sakhaei, Mahsa Farhadi

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