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Transplantation Criteria for Patients With Severe Pulmonary Hypertension and Grossly Impaired Right, but Relatively Normal Left Ventricular Function

Thu, 15 May 2008 13:19:18 EDT

Does any degree of right ventricular dysfunction warrant a heart-lung transplant over a lung transplant?
Medscape Pulmonary Medicine

A Case of Polyomavirus-associated Nephropathy Presenting Late After Transplantation

Thu, 15 May 2008 14:20:59 EDT

Polyomavirus-associated nephropathy (PVAN) is diagnosed in a 36-year-old woman who had a deceased-donor renal transplant. PVAN, often diagnosed within 12 months of transplant, developed 8 years later.
Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology

Diagnostic Accuracy of Measurement Methods to Assess Non-Adherence to Immunosuppressive Drugs in Kidney Transplant Recipients

Thu, 15 May 2008 17:45:18 EDT

Which is better for assessing nonadherence to immunosuppressive therapy: assays, patient self-reports, clinicians' collateral reports, or electronic monitoring?
American Journal of Transplantation