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Exploring the Complex Ethical Challenges Associated with Living Donor Kidney Tr...
Almeida, Manuela; Machado, DomingosLiving donor kidney transplantation is regarded as the best treatment for selected patients with end ‑stage renal disease, associated with improved survival and quality of life. However, it should be recognized as a distinct medical procedure during which an organ is procured from a healthy individual for the benefit of another patient. Seven decades after the first successful procedure, ethical constraints pe...
Sexual dysfunction and satisfaction in Kidney Transplant Patients
Mota, Renato Lains; Fonseca, Rita; Santos, José Carlos; Covita, Ana Mateus; Marques, Nicole; Matias, Patricia; Simões, Hélder; Ramos, Catarina10% of the world's population suffers from chronic kidney disease. Kidney transplants provide an improvement in the quality of life of those patients. Sexual dysfunction is common after kidney transplantation, and its etiology is presumed to be multifactorial. It has a negative impact on sexual satisfaction and health-related quality-of-life. The integration of a new organ into the body can imply an adjustment ...
High‐grade urothelial carcinoma in a kidney transplant recipient after JC virus...
Querido, Sara; Fernandes, Isabel; Weigert, Andre; Casimiro, Sandra; Albuquerque, Catarina; Ramos, Sância; Adragão, Teresa; Luz, Ivan; Paixão, PauloKidney transplant (KT) recipients have an increased risk for urothelial carcinoma. A role for JC virus (JCV) in human cancers is not yet proved but there is an increasingly reported association between BK virus (BKV) nephropathy and renourinary neoplasms. We report a KT recipient who developed a high-grade urothelial carcinoma 5 years after a diagnosis of JCV nephropathy and 9 years after kidney transplantation...
Rewards to increase living kidney donation: the state of the art
Querido, Sara; Weigert, Andre; Adragão, Teresa; Machado, Domingos; Pais, DiogoThe incidence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is increasing worldwide. When compared to dialysis, renal transplantation (RT) leads to a survival advantage and to an improvement in quality of life in most ESRD patients. Additionally, from a societal perspective, RT is the most cost-effective modality of renal replacement therapy (RRT) for eligible patients. In the last decades, RT has prolonged and improved th...
Urinary Tract Infections in a Cohort of Kidney Transplant Recipients
Bispo, Ana; Fernandes, Milene; Toscano, Cristina; Marques, Teresa; Machado, Domingos; Weigert, AndréIntroduction: Urinary tract infection is the most common infectious complication following renal transplantation and its frequency is insufficiently studied in Portugal. The aim of this study was to characterize the incidence of urinary tract infections and recurrent urinary tract infections in renal transplant recipients.Material and Methods: This was a retrospective cohort observational study, obtained from c...
Infeções do trato urinário numa coorte de transplantados renais
Bispo, Ana; Fernandes, Milene; Toscano, Cristina; Marques, Teresa; Machado, Domingos; Weigert, AndréIntroduction: Urinary tract infection is the most common infectious complication following renal transplantation and its frequency is insufficiently studied in Portugal. The aim of this study was to characterize the incidence of urinary tract infections and recurrent urinary tract infections in renal transplant recipients. Material and Methods: This was a retrospective cohort observational study, obtained from ...