Background: Terminal kidney patients are faced with lower quality of life during dialysis treatment, restricted diets and high morbidity and mortality rates while waiting for a deceased donor kidney transplantation. Fortunately, living donor kidney transplantation offers an alternative with consider
DOELSTELLING Nierdonatie bij leven levert medisch en maatschappelijk gezien veel voordelen op, maar toch willen of kunnen niet alle nierpatiënten op de wachtlijst en/of hun naasten zich opgeven voor het nierdonatie bij leven programma. De doelstelling van het project ‘Nierdonatie bij leven: psychol
Final technical report of the project.
OBJECTIVES: To determine the best approach for live donor nephrectomy to minimise discomfort to the donor and to provide good graft function. DESIGN: Single blind, randomised controlled trial. SETTING: Two university medical centres, the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS: 100 living kidney donors. INTERVENT
Dit rapport is het verslag van een verkennende studie naar attitudes met betrekking tot orgaandonatie, en de morele implicaties hiervan. Psychologisch en ethisch onderzoek vullen elkaar in dit rapport aan. Er wordt aandacht geschonken aan twee ontwikkelingen op het gebied van orgaanverwerving: de to
Left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy leads to diastolic dysfunction. Standard Doppler transmitral and pulmonary vein (PV) flow velocity measurements are preload dependent. New techniques such as mitral annulus velocity by Doppler tissue imaging (DTI) and LV inflow propagation velocity
The extent of graft damage after ischemia-reperfusion reflects the balance between deleterious events and protective factors. Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) may contribute to cytoprotection by their anti-inflammatory and antiapoptotic properti
PURPOSE: To determine the most cost-effective strategy for preoperative imaging performed in potential living renal donors. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In a decision-analytic model, the societal cost-effectiveness of digital subtraction angiography (DSA), gadolinium-enhanced magnetic re
OBJECTIVE: To assess whether diastolic graft function is influenced by intragraft interleukin 2 (IL-2) messenger RNA (mRNA) expression in rejecting cardiac allografts. DESIGN: 16 recipients of cardiac allografts were monitored during the first three months after transplantation. Th
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