2026 June - 7 articles
Introduction: During the COVID-19 pandemic, drug overdose deaths increased significantly, providing a potential cohort of donor organs. However, graft failure and mortality rates among those receiving organs from donors who died from drug overdose re...
Heart transplantation remains a vital therapy for patients with end-stage heart failure, yet organ scarcity and evolving allocation policies necessitate robust risk prediction models to optimize outcomes and equity. This narrative review explores the...
Kidney transplantation remains the optimal treatment for end-stage renal disease, yet long-term allograft survival has plateaued due to persistent rejection. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the inflammatory and immune pathways implic...
Kidney transplantation is considered the best therapeutic option for patients affected by end-stage renal failure, but this possibility is limited by a shortage of donors. Living-donor kidney transplantation (LDKD) is a valuable option, frequently li...
Background/Objectives: Renal scintigraphy with 99mTc-MAG3 is a non-invasive tool for assessing early post-kidney-transplant function and detecting complications. While its utility in predicting delayed graft function (DGF) is established, evidence re...
Background/Objectives: Given the narrow therapeutic range of tacrolimus and substantial inter-individual variability in trough levels, both total daily dose and the trough level-to-dose ratio are commonly used to guide dose optimization. In this stud...
Background: Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in deceased lung transplantation (DLT) procedures performed in Japan. However, there is concern that the number of transplantations may reach the limit of capacity in some centers. The present...
