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Major Determinants of Primary Non Function From Kidney Donation After Maastrich...
Gaspar, A; Gama, M; Nobre de Jesus, G; Querido, S; Damas, J; Oliveira, J; Neves, M; Santana, A; Ribeiro, JMPurpose: Organ shortage greatly limits treatment of patients with end-stage chronic kidney. Maastricht type 2 donation after circulatory death (DCD) has been shown to have similar results in long term outcomes in kidney transplantation, when compared with brain dead donation. Our main goal was to assess Maastricht type 2 DCD and evaluate factors that impact on early graft function. Methods: A retrospective stud...
High-Grade Urothelial Carcinoma in a Kidney Transplant Recipient After JC Virus...
Querido, S; Fernandes, I; Weigert, A; Casimiro, S; Albuquerque, C; Ramos, S; Adragão, T; Luz, I; Paixão, P; Chasqueira, M; Santos, M; Machado, DKidney 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...
Renal Transplantation in HIV-Infected Patients: The First Portuguese Review
Querido, S; Machado, D; Silva, C; Nolasco, F; Nunes, A; Sampaio, S; Cruz, P; Oliveira, C; Weigert, AINTRODUCTION: With the introduction of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART), prognosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has been improved and kidney transplantation (KT) in HIV-positive patients became possible. METHODS: We reviewed the demographic, clinical, laboratory, and therapeutic data of all the HIV-infected patients who underwent KT between 2009 (first KT in Portugal in a HIV-infecte...