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Filter by:The investigator hypothesize that the combined use of (1) non-invasive biomarkers in peripheral blood predicting anti-donor immunological activation or quiescence (2) interactive and actionable data analytics delivered at the bedside will promote safe clinical follow-up of kidney transplant patients with less need for invasive and induced risk surveillance by allograft protocol biopsies to assess allograft rejection in clinically stable kidney transplant patients. It is therefore proposed an European, multicenter, prospective randomized comparing two strategies of follow-up: in the first, biopsies are guided by biomarkers, in the second one, a routine biopsy is performed at M3. In both groups, a biopsy is performed at M12 and whenever considered necessary by the clinician.
Correlation between hernias reparation in patients who have received a kidney transplant. The investigators will analyze the data of patients who have been treated for reparation of incisional hernia after kidney transplantation with or without the placement of a prosthesis.
Kidney transplantation is considered the standard of care for patients with end-stage kidney disease under chronic dialysis treatment. Today, modern surgical techniques have dramatically improved the quality of life and the overall survival of renal transplant recipients (RTRs) . Besides, the use of novel immunosuppressors have increased the 1-year graft survival rate and decreased acute rejection rate . Unfortunately, several transplantation-related diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease and infection may affect the survival of renal transplant recipients. It has been estimated that RTRs are 2- to 5- fold more likely to develop cancer compared to the general population. Therefore, the development of cancer has become a major concern as it is currently one of the main causes of death in RTRs. The increasing incidence of post-transplant malignancies is generally attributed to immunosuppression which leads to impaired immunosurveillance of cancer cells and virals infections capable of cancer development. Additionally, it has been observed a direct and specific pro-oncogenic effect on RTRs of immunosuppressive drugs and other immunosuppression-independent factors such as the increased age of RTRs, the male gender and the pre-transplant dialysis duration . Prostate cancer is the second most diagnosed cancer in men and the most common non-skin solid neoplasm in RTRs. Generally, the vast majority of post kidney transplantation prostate cancers are localised; however, due to the lack of randomized studies, no specific guidelines for the management of localized prostate cancer are available and, consequently, RTR patients are being treated with surgery or radiotherapy according to national or local guidelines. The concomitant use of immunosuppressors and the presence of the kidney graft in the pelvic cavity make the treatment of localised prostate cancer post kidney transplantation more challenging, highlighting the need for these patients to be addressed to urological oncology centres with surgeons familiar with oncological and transplant surgery. Prostate cancer is the second most diagnosed cancer in men and the most common non-skin solid neoplasm in RTRs, however, little studies describe the real incidence of prostate cancer in RTRs. The aim of this study is to retrospectively review a 25-year experience at the Florence Transplant Center in order to evaluate the incidence of prostate cancer and its possible clinical/pathological factors able to influence the survival.
The safety and efficacy of micro-energy ultrasound in the treatment of renal insufficiency after renal transplantation.
Background: Administration of morphine as boluses or via a patient controlled analgesic device (PCA) has been the standard practice for donors after nephrectomy. However, administration of morphine is far from being ideal analgesic as it does not provide optimal dynamic pain relief after major surgery, consistently demonstrate little effect on surgical stress response and organ dysfunction with high incidences of postoperative nausea/vomiting, respiratory depression and sedation. Several studies demonstrated perioperative intravenous lignocaine infusion can improve post-operative pain scores and morphine consumption in abdominal surgery. The aim of this study is to identify the effectiveness of intra-operative lignocaine infusion in lowering postoperative pain and reduce postoperative morphine consumption in patients who undergo laparoscopic donor nephrectomy.
This is a prospective, multicenter, observational, non -interventional study with comparison with an historical cohort Investigators will compare the efficacy and safety of Thymoglobulin (Sanofi-Aventis) versus Grafalon (Neovii, previously ATG-Fresenius) in renal transplantation by evaluating patient survival, graft survival, delayed graft function, acute rejection, DSA occurrence and toxicities, various infections including CMV and BK virus incidence, MACE (major cardiac adverse event) and cancer. Investigators will also compare cumulative treatment and follow up costs and other key criteria available in the ASTRE database.
Renal transplantation is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Calcineurin Inhibitors tacrolimus and cyclosporine are the principle immunosuppressive agents administered to solid organ transplant recipients to prevent and treat allograft rejection. The aim of the present study is to detect the incidence of some selected genetic polymorphism in Egyptian renal transplant population and investigate the influence of these genetic polymorphism (SNPs )on Cyclosporine and Tacrolimus blood concentration. In addition to detect the association between these genetic polymorphism variants and patients' clinical outcome after transplantation.
The goal of the research proposed in the current application is to first define how much antibody aging renal transplant and dialysis recipients make after they are vaccinated with the pneumonia vaccine and how this compares to similar aged persons with good renal function and healthy young adults. The investigators will study differences in the kind of B cells and markers on the B cells that are known to be important in the response to the pneumonia vaccine in aging renal transplant and aging dialysis recipients compared to similarly aged and young healthy controls. Finally, the investigators will study how safe the pneumonia vaccine is in aging renal transplants. The answers to these questions will help in designing a better vaccine for older people with a renal transplant or on dialysis.
Transplant Centers are facing new organisational challenges with regards to the growing number of patients they have to follow-up. We have developed and assessed the feasibility of using a novel web application permitting a medically-tailored follow-up of stable renal transplanted outpatients: Ap'TELECARE. This novel approach is likely to facilitate the organization of patients' follow-up at the Transplant Centre level as well as to provide secondary individual benefits in terms of therapeutic education, adherence to treatment and eventually to improve long term outcome.
Anti-rejection medicines, also known as immunosuppressive drugs, are prescribed to organ transplant recipients to prevent rejection of the new organ. Long-term use of these medicines places transplant recipients at higher risk of serious infections and certain types of cancer. The purpose of this study is to determine if: - it is safe to give mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) to kidney transplant recipients, and - the combination of the immunosuppressive (anti-rejection) study drugs plus the MSCs can allow a kidney transplant recipient to slowly reduce and/or then completely stop all anti-rejection drugs, without rejection of their kidney (renal) allograft, a process called "immunosuppression withdrawal".