Objective: The paper aims to investigate the clinical nursing pathway (CNP) in the application of immunosorption therapy in patients with rheumatic immune disease. Methods: Convenience sampling method was used to sele...
BACKGROUND Klinefelter syndrome(KS) is a genetic disease of male sex chromosome malformations that affects sperm production and reduces testosterone production. It has been reported that there is currently more than 1...
Therapeutic apheresis is a cornerstone of therapy for several conditions in transplantation medicine and is available in different technical variants. In the setting of kidney transplantation, immunological barriers s...
AIM: To investigate the long-term results of ABOincompatible(ABOi) kidney transplantation in a single center in Greece.METHODS: Thirty consecutive ABOi kidney transplantations were performed from June 2005 to December...
Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis (BBE) is a rare post-infectious neurological syndrome for which an effective treatment strategy has not been established. Here, we report a case of a 71-year-old male who suffered fr...
We report about a successful immunadsorption therapy of a boy with end stage heart failure due to Duchenne muscular dystrophy who has little chance to get cardiac transplantation. Prior to this therapy a medical thera...
We present a retrospective review of DNA immunoadsorption (DNA-IA) therapy on clinical symptoms as well as indicators in pediatric cases with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and follow up the short-term curative e...
Background Sensitized recipients have a high risk of immunological graft loss due to hyperacute rejection and/or accelerated acute rejection. The presence of major histocompatibility complex class I-related chain A (...
In order to evaluate the feasibility of specific removal of circulating TNF by imrnunoadsorption,the efficacy and safety of the anti-TNF monoclonal antibody immobilized immunosorbent were studied fromdifferent points ...
Objective: To compare the protective effects of removingcirculatory TNF by specific immunoadsorption and by nonspeciflc Amberlite XAD-7 adsorption on experimental endotoxin shock. Methods: New Zealand white rabbits re...