Annals ofTransplants

Volume: 2 - Number: 5 - March 15, 2004

Outstanding

International group reiterates stance against human organ trafficking

Intravenous and Oral Itraconazole versus Intravenous and Oral Fluconazole for Long-Term Antifungal Prophylaxis in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter, Randomized Trial

The Impact of Novel Immunosuppressive Agents on Infections in Organ Transplant Recipients and the Interactions of These Agents with Antimicrobials

Last Hope

Chronic renal failure

Late Occurrence of Chronic Renal Failure in Familial Mediterranean Fever after 20 Years of Colchicine Treatment

Cytokines and hepacellular carcinoma

Interferon Therapy after Tumor Ablation Improves Prognosis in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Associated with Hepatitis C Virus

Experimental sepsis and cytokines

Orally Administered Recombinant Human Interleukin-11 Is Protective in Experimental Neutropenic Sepsis

Fever, sepsis, neutropenic and cancer

Intravenous and Oral Itraconazole versus Intravenous Amphotericin B Deoxycholate as Empirical Antifungal Therapy for Persistent Fever in Neutropenic Patients with Cancer Who Are Receiving Broad-Spectrum Antibacterial Therapy: A Randomized, Controlled Tria

Health police

Legislative Myopia on Stem Cells

Hematopoietic stem-cell transplant

Ganciclovir-Resistant Cytomegalovirus Disease after Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation: Pitfalls of Phenotypic Diagnosis by In Vitro Selection of an UL97 Mutant Strain

High Risk of Death Due to Bacterial and Fungal Infection among Cytomegalovirus (CMV)Seronegative Recipients of Stem Cell Transplants from Seropositive Donors: Evidence for Indirect Effects of Primary CMV Infection

Intravenous and Oral Itraconazole versus Intravenous and Oral Fluconazole for Long-Term Antifungal Prophylaxis in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter, Randomized Trial

Immunology

Age-Related Decrease in Adenovirus-Specific T Cell Responses

Immunosuppressive agents an organ transplantation

The Impact of Novel Immunosuppressive Agents on Infections in Organ Transplant Recipients and the Interactions of These Agents with Antimicrobials

Infectology

Organ transplants and blood transfusions may transmit West Nile virus

Mycosis in liver transplantation

Trends in Risk Profiles for and Mortality Associated with Invasive Aspergillosis among Liver Transplant Recipients

Organ Donation

Irish kidney transplants fall by a quarter

Organ trafficking

Kidney trafficking is "big business," says Council of Europe

Outcome in assistencial quality

Is Volume Related to Outcome in Health Care? A Systematic Review and Methodologic Critique of the Literature

Poetry

Last Hope

Renal transplantation

Interleukin-2 receptor monoclonal antibodies in renal transplantation: meta-analysis of randomised trials

Kidney Transplantation from Donors without a Heartbeat

Transplantation and ethics

International group reiterates stance against human organ trafficking

Israel considers paying people for donating a kidney

Xenotransplantation

Infection in xenotransplantation