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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...
Mineral and Bone Disease (MBD) on a Kidney Transplant Patient
Birne, R; Adragão, T; Ferreira, A; Dickson, J; Silva, R; Casqueiro, A; Oliveira, R; Martins, AR; Torres, J; Matias, P; Branco, P; Jorge, C; Weigert, AA 50-year-old post-menopausal recipient of a kidney allograft with bone pain, osteoporosis, persistent hypercalcaemia and elevated parathormone (PTH) levels, despite a satisfactory graft function, was treated with bisphosphonates and cinacalcet starting, respectively, 5 and 6 months after renal transplantation (RT). Sixteen months after treatment, there was improvement of bone mineral density (BMD) measured by ...
Candida species contamination of preservation fluid-outcome of renal transplant...
Rodrigues, B; Natário, A; Vizinho, R; Jorge C, C; Weigert, A; Martinho, A; Toscano, C; Marques, T; Machado, DBACKGROUND: Fungal infections are a rare but important cause of morbidity and mortality in kidney transplantation. Fungal contamination of the kidney preservation fluid may, sometimes, be the cause of these infections. However, the clinical consequences of fungal contamination of this fluid are not completely understood and literature on this topic is controversial. The purpose of this study was to determine th...
Achieving K/DOQI Targets with Cinacalcet in Dialysis Patients with Secondary Hy...
Macário, F; Frazão, JM; Ferreira, A; Weigert, A; Mota, M; Machado, D; Birne, R; Neto, R; Baldaia Moreira, A; Soares, C; Ribeiro, S; Mendes, T; Alves, RSecondary hyperparathyroidism is a common complication of chronic kidney disease. The elevated serum intact parathyroid hormone, phosphorus, calcium and calcium x phosphorus product have been independently associated with an increased relative risk of mortality. The standard therapy for secondary hyperparathyroidism, including active vitamin D analogues and phosphate binders, is often insufficient to allow pati...