Objectives: To investigate mortality from COVID-19 in renal transplant recipients (RT) and factors associated with increased risk of death. Methods: RT recipients with suspected COVID-19 were monitored by nephrologists from march to december 2020, through daily telephone contact, and clinical-laboratory-evolution data regarding COVID-19 were recorded. A multivariate analysis (logistic regression, forward stepwi...
Actinomycosis is a rare, infectious, chronic, progressive, granulomatous disease caused in most cases by Gram-positive and anaerobic bacterium Actinomyces israelii. It may resemble other infectious and even neoplastic processes, making it difficult to diagnose and compromise therapeutic success, and may lead to serious complications. The authors report the case of a 54-year-old female, who had undergone renal t...
Histoplasmosis is a systemic mycosis, affecting mainly immunocompromised patients with nonspecific clinical presentation. The presentation form is focal or widespread, the latter often fatal. The authors report two cases of intestinal histoplasmosis in renal transplant patients, with a low rate of clinical suspicion, who were diagnosed by lesion biopsy and showed a favorable outcome due to early treatment with ...
Background This study evaluated the risk factors for delayed graft function (DGF) in a country where its incidence is high, detailing donor maintenance-related (DMR) variables and using machine learning (ML) methods beyond the traditional regression-based models. Methods A total of 443 brain dead deceased donor kidney transplants (KT) from two Brazilian centers were retrospectively analyzed and the following DM...
Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T01:14:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-02-01; Background: This study evaluated the risk factors for delayed graft function (DGF) in a country where its incidence is high, detailing donor maintenance-related (DMR) variables and using machine learning (ML) methods beyond the traditional regression-based models. Methods: A total of 443 brain dead dece...
A descriptive and prospective study was conducted on the pharmaceutical care in the post-transplant outpatient clinic of Hospital Universitario Walter Cantidio of Universidade Federal do Ceará (HUWC/UFC), in Fortaleza- Ceará in the period of April to October of 2011. The aim of the present study was to describe the pharmaceutical interventions performed in a Pharmaceutical Care service structured in the liver a...