Kidney transplantation has been the optimal treatment for end-stage kidney disease for almost 70 years, with increasing frequency over this period. Despite the prevalence of the procedure, allograft rejection continues to impact transplant recipients...
Background: Pre-transplant serum Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIRS) has identified an internally validated biochemical signal associated with subsequent biopsy-proven kidney allograft rejection. Whether this signal retains discrimination...
Kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for end-stage renal failure, but the limited availability of donors and the risk of immune rejection pose significant challenges. Early detection of acute renal rejection is a critical step to increas...
Despite major advances in immunosuppression, allograft rejection remains an important complication after heart transplantation, and it is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The gold standard invasive strategy to monitor and diagnose c...
Kidney transplantation is a crucial treatment for end-stage kidney disease, with immunosuppressive drugs helping to reduce acute rejection rates. However, kidney graft longevity remains a concern. This study explores the role of indoleamine 2,3-dioxy...
Currently, approximately 90,000 patients are on the kidney transplant waitlist in the United States, including 10,000 individuals awaiting re-transplantation due to prior graft failure. Allograft rejection remains a leading cause of kidney transplant...
Desalination is becoming crucial to meet the increasing global demand for potable water. Despite its benefits, desalination produces reject brine, a highly concentrated saline byproduct, which poses substantial environmental risks if not managed prop...
In this clinical validation study, we developed and validated a urinary Q-Score generated from the quantitative test QSant, formerly known as QiSant, for the detection of biopsy-confirmed acute rejection in kidney transplants. Using a cohort of 223 d...
Heart transplant prolongs life for patients with end-stage heart failure but rejection remains a complication that reduces long-term survival. The aim is to provide a comprehensive overview of the current status in HT rejection. EMB is an invasive di...
(1) Background: Kidney transplantation is the best therapy for patients with end-stage renal disease, but the risk of rejection complicates it. Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1), an enzyme involved in immune response modulation, has been suggested...
With increasing knowledge of immunologic factors and with the advent of potent immunosuppressive agents, the last several decades have seen significantly improved kidney allograft survival. However, despite overall improved short to medium-term allog...
All chronic and treatment-resistant acute rejections are “difficult-to-treat” and lead to progressive loss of graft function in kidney transplant recipients (KTR), as no effective treatment exists for such rejections to date. We review ou...
Background: Heart transplantation (HT) remains the ultimate treatment for end-stage heart failure. An endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) is “the gold standard” diagnostic procedure used in HT rejection surveillance. The aim of this study is to p...
Chronic kidney disease is rising worldwide, and kidney transplantation remains the preferred modality of kidney replacement therapy. However, long-term graft survival continues to be limited by chronic alloimmune injury, particularly antibody-mediate...
Liver transplantation is the most effective treatment for end-stage liver disease. Despite improvements in surgical techniques, transplant rejection remains a significant concern. The liver is considered an immune-privileged organ due to its unique m...
Chlorine resistance of reverse osmosis membranes is usually reported as the fraction of salt rejection retained after chlorination, a metric that depends on the initial rejection. This secondary reanalysis quantifies the dependence for published data...
Background: Rejected medical claims pose a significant challenge for healthcare facilities accredited by Tanzania’s National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF). Despite the NHIF’s role in reducing out-of-pocket costs, claim rejections have been...
Noninvasive tools for diagnosis or prediction of acute kidney allograft rejection have been extensively investigated in recent years. Biochemical and molecular analyses of blood and urine provide a liquid biopsy that could offer new possibilities for...
Despite significant advancements in immunosuppressive therapies, kidney transplant rejection continues to pose a substantial challenge, impacting the long-term survival of grafts. This article provides an overview of the diagnosis, current therapies,...
This paper proposes an active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) architecture for a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) position servo system. The presented method achieved enhanced tracking and disturbance rejection performance with a limite...
Background/Objectives: Renal transplantation is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal disease. In the last decade, the number of older renal transplant recipients has significantly increased. However, these patients are at a highe...
In this paper, we study two scheduling problems on a single machine with rejection and an operator non-availability interval. In the operator non-availability interval, no job can be started or be completed. However, a crossover job is allowed such t...
Kidney transplantation, like other transplants, has the risk of producing graft rejection due to genetic differences between donor and recipient. The three known types of renal rejection are listed in the Banff classification: T-cell-mediated rejecti...
The purpose of this article is to assess the present knowledge about chronic active (CA) T-cell mediated rejection (TCMR) of a kidney. In the research authors review current Banff diagnostic criteria used in kidney rejection, focus on their possible...
25 March 2020
The present study investigated the potential moderating role of physical activity on the relationship between parental rejection and poor body image perceptions. Late adolescents and young adults from Turkey (N = 373; 256 females/117 males) reported...
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...
3 April 2019
The present study focuses on analyzing the relationship between the parental acceptance–rejection perceived by adolescents and emotional instability from the early stages of adolescence. Special attention will be paid to potential differences b...
Disturbance rejection in localized continuous linear systems remains challenging due to the interplay between spatial constraints, exact invariance conditions, and discretization effects. Existing methods either lack rigorous guarantees for exact rej...
Despite the advances in immunosuppressive medications, antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) continues to be a major cause of kidney allograft failure and remains a barrier to improving long-term allograft survival. Recently, there have been significant...
Background: Organ transplant offers patients a second chance at life, yet chronic rejection remains a formidable barrier to long-term success. Unlike the instantaneous storm of acute rejection, chronic rejection is a slow, unremitting process that si...
We investigate the single-machine parallel-batch scheduling problem with nonidentical job sizes and rejection. In this problem, a set of jobs with different processing times and nonidentical sizes is given to be possibly processed on a parallel-batch...
Kiwifruit hold significant nutritional value and are a good source of antioxidants due to their diverse range of bioactive compounds. Kiwifruit waste is generated throughout the food supply chain, particularly during transportation and storage. Kiwif...
Multiple factors influence graft rejection after kidney transplantation. Pre-operative factors affecting graft function and survival include donor and recipient characteristics such as age, gender, race, and immunologic compatibility. In addition, se...
Kidney transplantation is an essential medical procedure that significantly enhances the survival rates and quality of life for patients with end-stage kidney disease. However, despite advancements in immunosuppressive therapies, allograft rejection...
Recently, sensory threshold concepts have been expanded to include affective perceptions of foods and beverages, especially measures of product rejection; however, each threshold interpretation depends largely on the methodology employed. By substitu...
Investigations on mate choice in humans frequently report preferences, but there is little knowledge about what is important for rejection by a potential mate. The present study aims to verify if facial asymmetry and facial disharmony have an influen...
Acute cardiac rejection remains a significant challenge in the post-transplant period, necessitating meticulous monitoring and timely intervention to prevent graft failure. Thus, the goal of the present study was to identify novel biomarkers involved...
In this paper, we investigate a rescheduling problem with rejection and an operator non-availability period on a single machine. An optimal original schedule with the objective of minimizing the total weighted completion time has been made in a deter...
Background and Introduction: Race-based social rejection has been found to predict post-traumatic stress and depression symptoms, consistent with previous studies that have shown the negative mental health effects of racism, as well as social rejecti...
Intestinal acute rejection (AR) lacks a reliable non-invasive biomarker and AR surveillance is conducted through frequent endoscopic biopsies. Although citrulline and calprotectin have been suggested as AR biomarkers, these have limited clinical valu...
To combine the advantages of linear active disturbance rejection control (LADRC) and nonlinear active disturbance rejection control (NLADRC) and improve the contradiction between the response speed and control precision caused by the limitation of pa...
Children’s eating behavior does not necessarily align with dietary recommendations, and there is a need for better understanding the factors underlying their food choices. The aim of this study was to investigate children’s self-reported...
Sub-optimal sensitivity and specificity in current allograft monitoring methodologies underscore the need for more accurate and reflexive immunosurveillance to uncover the flux in alloimmunity between allograft health and the onset and progression of...
Introduction: Presently, liver transplantation is becoming a more common treatment option for adults and children suffering from liver failure. Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR), a phenomenon that is exceedingly uncommon and inadequately comprehended...
Renal transplantation is currently the treatment of choice for end-stage kidney disease, enabling a quality of life superior to dialysis. Despite this, all transplanted patients are at risk of allograft rejection processes. The gold-standard diagnosi...
Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage kidney disease. Despite significant advances in graft survival, rejection continues to pose a major clinical challenge. Conventional monitoring tools, such as serum creatin...
Background: Kidney transplantation is a life-saving treatment for end-stage kidney disease, but allograft rejection remains a critical challenge, requiring accurate and timely diagnosis. The study aims to evaluate the integration of Fourier Transform...
In this paper, two axiomatic theories T− and T′ are constructed, which are dual to Tarski’s theory T+ (1930) of deductive systems based on classical propositional calculus. While in Tarski’s theory T+ the primitive notion is the classical consequence...
To improve outcomes following lung transplantation, it is essential to understand the immunological mechanisms that result in chronic graft failure. The associated clinical syndrome is termed chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD), which is known...
In this paper, a novel fractional-order active disturbance rejection control with fuzzy self-tuning method (FSFOADRC) is proposed for photoelectric tracking system (PTS). Firstly, aiming at the internal uncertainty of PTS and external disturbance, a...
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