The immunological monitoring of kidney and liver transplants in adult and pediatric recipients
✍ Scribed by Dinh Quang Truong; Christophe Bourdeaux; Grégoire Wieërs; Pascale Saussoy; Dominique Latinne; Raymond Reding
- Book ID
- 116940251
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 233 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0966-3274
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## Key Points 1. Pretransplant kidney function is an important predictor of posttransplant kidney function. 2. Chronic kidney disease is present in 20% of liver transplant recipients by 5 years. 3. Kidney function is impacted by pretransplant management of the consequences of the hepatorenal syndro
Cytokine deviation may be a factor contributing to graft acceptance. We analyze, in the context of liver transplantation, circulating cytokine levels and their mRNA precursors in liver biopsy samples to study a putative correlation with early immunologic outcome. Forty primary pediatric liver recipi