Annals ofTransplants

Volume: 2 - Number: 3 - January 15, 2004

Outstanding

Health Care–Associated Bloodstream Infections in Adults: A Reason To Change the Accepted Definition of Community-Acquired Infections

Five-year results of kidney transplantation under tacrolimus-based regimes: the persisting significance of vascular rejection

Fever, Neutropenia, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Hospital criticised for poor selection of patients for transplants

Bone marrow transplantation

HLA Matching for Bone Marrow Transplantation — How Much Is Enough?

Chemotherapy in transplant`s patient

High-Dose Chemotherapy with Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Rescue for High-Risk Breast Cancer

High-Dose Chemotherapy with Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Rescue for Multiple Myeloma

High-Dose Cyclophosphamide for Treatment of Aplastic Anemia

Clinical transplantation

Fever, Neutropenia, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Gadolinium-enhanced three-dimensional magnetic resonance angiography versus conventional digital subtraction angiography: which modality is superior in evaluating living kidney donors?1

Germany faces shortfall in transplant organs

High urine sIL-6R as a predictor of late graft failure in renal transplant recipientsliñ

Hypophosphatemia after 95 right-lobe living-donor hepatectomies for liver transplantation is not a significant source of morbidity

Impaired insulin response after oral but not intravenous glucose in heart- and liver-transplant recipients

Incidence of clinically unsuspected pulmonary embolism in mechanically ventilated lung transplant recipients

Environment and society

GP struck off after offering to "fix" kidney sale

Enzyme replacement

Fabry Disease, an Under-Recognized Multisystemic Disorder: Expert Recommendations for Diagnosis, Management, and Enzyme Replacement Therapy

Experimental Transplantation

Gemcitabine with cyclosporine or with tacrolimus exerts a synergistic effect and induces tolerance in the rat

Face transplants

Face transplants should not be done without more research

Genetic

Heterozygous disruption of the ?1,3-galactosyltransferase gene in cattle

Immunobiology

Increased expression of transforming growth factor-? and eosinophil infiltration is associated with the development of transplant arteriosclerosis in long-term surviving cardiac allografts

Infectology

Fumagillin Treatment of Intestinal Microsporidiosis

Health Care–Associated Bloodstream Infections in Adults: A Reason To Change the Accepted Definition of Community-Acquired Infections

Organ Donation

Hungary tries to increase organ donation

Organs selection

Hospital criticised for poor selection of patients for transplants

Stem cell transplantation

Hematopoietic Engraftment and Survival in Adult Recipients of Umbilical-Cord Blood from Unrelated Donors

Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation for the Bernard–Soulier Syndrome

Therapeutics

Five-year results of kidney transplantation under tacrolimus-based regimes: the persisting significance of vascular rejection

Trading organs

German surgeon under investigation over organ trading