Transplantation

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Protocol to Assess Feasibility, Acceptability, and Usability of Mobile Technology for Symptom Management in Pediatric Transplant Patients. 
  • A flow cytometric crossmatch test using endothelial precursor cells isolated from peripheral blood. 
  • A modern Cosmas and Damian: Sir Roy Calne and Thomas Starzl receive the 2012 Lasker~Debakey Clinical Medical Research Award. 
  • A pilot study in sub-SMAS face transplantation: defining donor compatibility and assessing outcomes in a cadaver model. 
  • Antifungal attributes of immunosuppressive agents: new paradigms in management and elucidating the pathophysiologic basis of opportunistic mycoses in organ transplant recipients. 
  • Autologous gastrointestinal reconstruction: review of the optimal nontransplant surgical options for adults and children with short bowel syndrome. 
  • Clinical trials: where are we now? 
  • Composite tissue transplantation: a rapidly advancing field. 
  • Congress review: progress and prospects in bone marrow transplantation. 
  • Cutaneous cryptococcosis in solid organ transplant recipients. 
  • Design of aerosolized amphotericin b formulations for prophylaxis trials among lung transplant recipients. 
  • Emerging approaches and technologies in transplantation: the potential game changers. 
  • Ethics in the quest for transplant tolerance. 
  • Gene targeting: applications in transplantation research. 
  • Gene therapy in transplantation. 
  • Immune reconstitution syndrome in a patient with disseminated histoplasmosis and steroid taper: maintaining the perfect balance. 
  • Induction immunosuppression. 
  • Infection and cyclosporine. 
  • Infections due to Scedosporium apiospermum and Scedosporium prolificans in transplant recipients: clinical characteristics and impact of antifungal agent therapy on outcome. 
  • Invasive non-Aspergillus mold infections in transplant recipients, United States, 2001-2006. 
  • Low volume is associated with worse patient outcomes for pediatric liver transplant centers. 
  • Lymphoma in the immunocompromised patient. 
  • Management of drug and food interactions with azole antifungal agents in transplant recipients. 
  • Manifestations and outcomes of nocardia infections: Comparison of immunocompromised and nonimmunocompromised adult patients. 
  • Microsurgery: past, present, and future. 
  • Molecular identification of Aspergillus species collected for the Transplant-Associated Infection Surveillance Network. 
  • Now what? 
  • Oocyte donation. 
  • Optimizing the use of regulatory T cells in allotransplantation: recent advances and future perspectives. 
  • Pathophysiology and treatment of graft-versus-host disease. 
  • Perception versus reality?: Virtual crossmatch--how to overcome some of the technical and logistic limitations. 
  • Perioperative management of the multiorgan donor. 
  • Plasma nitrite and nitrate levels as a noninvasive marker of pathology after human small bowel transplantation. 
  • Prevention of post-transplant cardiovascular disease--report and recommendations of an ad hoc group. 
  • Proposal for the American Journal of Transplantation policy for review of ethical standards of clinical research involving live human subjects. 
  • Social responsibility, personal responsibility, and prognosis in public judgments about transplant allocation. 
  • Survey on Transfusion-Transmitted Cytomegalovirus and Cytomegalovirus Disease Mitigation. 
  • The economic costs to United States hospitals of invasive fungal infections in transplant patients. 
  • The evolving role of gene-based treatment in surgery. 
  • The extended abdominal wall flap for transplantation. 
  • The long and the short of telomeres in bone marrow recipient SCID patients. 
  • The perfusion of isolated whole organs. 
  • Thymic transplantation for complete DiGeorge syndrome: medical and surgical considerations. 
  • Topical anesthesia with EMLA reduces pain during endomyocardial biopsy: a randomized trial. 
  • Translational impact of NIH-funded nonhuman primate research in transplantation. 
  • Transplantation in the HIV+ patient. 
  • Trends in risk profiles for and mortality associated with invasive aspergillosis among liver transplant recipients. 
  • Urologic morbidity in renal transplantation. 
  • West Nile virus-associated encephalitis in recipients of renal and pancreas transplants: case series and literature review. 
  • What's new in transplantation. 
  • What's new--what's hot in basic science: American Transplant Congress 2004. 
  • Who should perform liver transplantation? Should that be the transplant surgeon, the hepatobilary surgeon, or the general surgeon? Part I: the transplant surgeon. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Markert, Mary Louise, Professor of Pediatrics, Immunology
  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • Morris, Jessica, Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology