Background Renal transplant recipients are at increased risk of premature cardiovascular
disease. Although statins reduce cardiovascular risk in the general population, their efficacy …

Impact of Acute Rejection and New-Onset Diabetes on Long-Ter... : Clinical Journal of the
American Society of Nephrology Impact of Acute Rejection and New-Onset Diabetes on …

Dual transplant of marginal kidneys otherwise not considered for single transplant may give
access to an expanded pool of cadaveric organs without exposing recipients to the …

Methods The Kidney Transplant Working Group, a subcommittee of the Canadian Society of
Transplantation (CST), was asked to prepare eligibility criteria for renal transplantation by …

The calcineurin inhibitors (CNI) cyclosporine and tacrolimus remain the backbone of
immunosuppression for most kidney transplant recipients. Despite many years of experience, …

Ribavirin, a synthetic guanosine analogue, possesses a broad spectrum of activity against
DNA and RNA viruses. It has been previously shown to attenuate the course of fulminant …

We conducted a prospective randomized study in which patients with biopsy-confirmed
idiopathic membranous nephropathy were assigned to receive either a six-month course of …

Method. Despite the need to expand the donor pool, it is unclear what parameters should
be used. The value of donor renal pathology and calculated creatinine clearance (CrCl) in …

Delayed graft function (DGF) associates with an increased risk for graft failure, but its link
with death with graft function (DWGF) is unknown. We used the US Renal Data System to …

Recombinant human antithrombin (rhAT) produced in transgenic goat milk was purified to
greater than 99%. The specific activity of the rhAT was identical to human plasma–derived AT (…