Efficacy of mTOR Inhibitors and Intravenous Immunoglobulin for Treatment of Polyoma BK Nephropathy in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Biopsy-Proven Study.

Objectives: We investigated the efficacy of a predetermined protocol that consisted of immunosuppressive drug reduction/withdrawal and intravenous immunoglobulin administration for the treatment of polyoma BK virus nephropathy.

Materials And Methods: Patients with biopsy-proven polyoma BK virus nephropathy received a treatment regimen based on discontinuation of both calcineurin inhibitors and antiproliferative agents and switching to mTOR inhibitors accompanied by intravenous immunoglobulin administration.

Results: Our study included 508 patients, with polyoma BK viremia detected in 80 patients.

The Oncologic Safety of Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Patients with Node-Positive Breast Cancer with Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: A Single-Center Experience.

Objective: To evaluate the efficiency and safety of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in patients with breast cancer with complete response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC).

Methods: Ninety-two consecutive (T1-4 and N1-2) patients with breast cancer who had pathologic and/or clinical and radiologic axillary lymph node involvement were included. All patients received NAC.

Gastrointestinal Tract Metastases of Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast: An Immunohistochemical Survey Algorithm.

Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) accounts for almost 15% of all breast carcinomas. The potential of ILC to metastasize to the gastointestinal system is significantly greater than that of invasive ductal carcinoma. Gastric metastasis occurred in the ninth year of the follow-up in a patient who was operated on the right breast due to ILC.

Outcomes of 6 Human Leukocyte Antigen-Mismatched Living Donor Kidney Transplant: A Study With Biopsy Amendment.

Objectives: In this study, we examined the graft and patient survival outcomes in patients with end-stage kidney disease who received 6 HLA-mismatched incompatible living donor kidney transplant.

Materials And Methods: Patients who underwent living donor kidney transplant between January 2010 and March 2020 were evaluated retrospectively. Group A included kidney transplant recipients with 6 HLA mismatches, and group B included kidney transplant recipients with 0 to 5 HLA mismatches.

Genitourinary Cancers Following Kidney Transplant: Our 20 Years of Experience With Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Inhibitors.

Objectives: We investigated patients with genitourinary cancer after kidney transplant and the effects of immunosuppression reduction and switching to mechanistic target of rapamycin inhibitors.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively evaluated kidney transplant recipients seen at our center between January 2000 and January 2020. Patients with <1 year of follow-up were excluded.

Acute Allograft Pyelonephritis: Vague Symptoms, Indeterminate Laboratory Results, and the Necessity of Indication Biopsy.

Objectives: In this study, we examined the clinical and biochemical features of biopsy-proven acute pyelonephritis among 769 kidney transplant recipients.

Materials And Methods: This cohort study was performed between January 2003 and December 2019 at the University of Health Sciences (Izmir, Turkey). Acute pyelonephritis refers to urinary tract infection with acute graft dysfunction.

Kidney Transplantation From Infected Donors With Particular Emphasis on Multidrug-Resistant Organisms: A Single-Center Cohort Study.

Objectives: Prevention of sepsis-related organ dysfunction in septic donors is crucial. In this study, septic donors were followed-up based on donor Sequential Organ Failure Assessment criteria.

Materials And Methods: Between January 2014 and 2020 at our center, 29 primary kidney transplant recipients received organs from 20 septic donors.

COVID-19 pneumonia in kidney transplant recipients: A promising treatment algorithm in the absence of a disease-specific drug.

There is no consensus on the management of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and modification of immunosuppressive therapy in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs). In this study, we examined the clinical outcome of our KTRs with COVID-19 disease, who were treated with a broad-spectrum anti-inflammatory protocol. This protocol is essentially composed of intravenous immunoglobulin +/- tocilizumab in KTRs with severe COVID-19 pneumonia.

The efficacy of interleukin-1 antagonist drugs in combination with colchicine in patients with FMF-AA with colchicine resistance after kidney transplantation: A study with histopathologic evidence.

Background: The efficacy of anti-interleukin-1 (IL-1) drugs in kidney transplant patients with FMF-AA who developed colchicine resistance has not been clearly demonstrated.

Method: Thirty nine kidney transplant recipients with FMF-AA were evaluated. Group 1 consisted of patients who were in remission after transplantation with colchine and Group 2 included those who developed colchicine resistance.

The relationship between serum uric acid levels and development of obesity in living kidney donors after donor nephrectomy.

Background: Hyperuricaemia plays a role in the pathogenesis of obesity and related metabolic disorders. The aim of this study to investigate the relationship between pre-donation serum uric acid (SUA) level and obesity development after nephrectomy in living kidney donors.

Methods: Living donors of kidney transplants between 1998 and 2019 were evaluated.

Clinicopathologic features of single bone metastasis in breast cancer.

The most common site for metastasis in patients with breast cancer is the bone. In this case series, we investigated patients whose surgical and medical treatment for primary breast cancer was conducted at our center and first disease recurrence was limited to only 1 bone.We analyzed 910 breast cancer patients, 863 had no metastasis and 47 cases had a single bone metastasis ≥ 6 months after their first diagnosis.

Acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding due to low-grade mucinous neoplasm of appendix.

Introduction: Lower gastrointestinal tract (GIT) bleeding originating from the appendix is rare and may be difficult to diagnose.

Patients And Methods: In this case report, we present an 88-year-old male patient who was admitted with hematochezia due to appendiceal bleeding. A colonoscopy revealed bleeding in the appendix orifice so an appendectomy was performed, and bleeding did not recur in the postoperative period.

Transplantation Using Renal Grafts With Multiple Renal Arteries: A Putative Study on the Impact of Arterial Reconstruction Technique and Site of Implantation on Outcomes.

Background: In the present retrospective study, we analyzed the outcomes of patients transplanted with grafts with multiple renal arteries (MRAs).

Patients And Methods: In total, 89 patients were transplanted with renal grafts with MRAs from 2003 to 2018. Demographic characteristics; type of donor; warm and cold ischemia times; arterial anastomosis technique; complications; graft function at first month, first year, and last outpatient clinic visit; and patient and graft survival were all retrospectively evaluated.

The course of alterations in ureteral jet dynamics following kidney transplantation: a prospective observational cohort study.

Objectives: To prospectively investigate the alterations and normal ranges of ureteral jet dynamics after double-J-stent (DJS) removal in patients who underwent renal transplantation (RTx).

Methods: Patients who underwent RTx were prospectively evaluated between November 2017 and June 2018. After RTx, Doppler ultrasonography (D-US) was performed on all patients after DJS removal.

Response to treatment in kidney transplant recipients with acute antibody-mediated rejection: A follow-up biopsy study .

Background: The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a treatment protocol for the management of acute antibody-mediated rejection (AAMR) and mixed-type rejection (MTR), both histopathologically and clinically.

Materials And Methods: Of the 362 cases undergoing kidney transplantation from January 2010 to January 2018, patients with AAMR or MTR in the first 3 months after transplantation were included. All patients had follow-up biopsy (Bx) after treatment.

Surgical Stress Hyperglycemia Associated With New-Onset Diabetes in Living Kidney Donors.

Background: The aim of this study is to investigate the frequency and risk factors of new-onset diabetes after donation in kidney donors without diabetes.

Methods: Living donors of kidney transplants between 1998 and 2016 were evaluated. To detect the blood glucose profile of the donors, preoperative fasting glucose (pro-G), nephrectomy evening glucose (nG), and postoperative day 1 fasting glucose (post-G) values were measured.

Evaluation of a Cytomegalovirus Prophylaxis Protocol in Cytomegalovirus-IgG Positive Renal Transplant Recipients (R+).

Background: The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of a unique cytomegalovirus- (CMV) prophylaxis protocol in terms of CMV infection and disease progression in CMV IgG positive kidney transplant recipients.

Methods: Achievement of negative CMV load, using concurrent prophylactic intravenous ganciclovir therapy during induction immunosuppression, combined with a 6-month prophylactic course of acyclovir, would yield a reduced incidence of early CMV infection and disease. CMV DNA was tested for at discharge, at the third, and sixth post-op months, and at the occurrence of any event that could be associated with CMV infection.

Anatomical distribution and number of parathyroid glands, and parathyroid function, after total parathyroidectomy and bilateral cervical thymectomy.

The normal distribution of parathyroid glands is well documented. However, this study aims to evaluate the efficacy of total parathyroidectomy (TPTx) and bilateral cervical thymectomy (BCTx) for the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) through identifying the location of parathyroid glands with attention to the pattern and frequency of orthotopic and ectopic glands.Between 2013 and 2018, sixty chronic hemodialysis patients with medically refractory SHPT underwent TPTx & BCTx.

Tubular vesicopyelostomy for the management of types 2 and 3 (long-segment) ureteric stenosis after kidney transplantation.

Late ureteral stenosis following kidney transplantation needs immediate correction in order to protect allograft function and requires a complicated surgical procedure. In this study, we present the long-term results of tubular bladder reconfiguration and cystopyelostomy (tubular vesicopyelostomy), an innovative and practical procedure for the management of long-segment ureteric stenosis (types 2 and 3) after transplantation. Between 2002 and 2017, 722 kidney transplant patients were monitored at the University of Medical Sciences, Bozyaka Organ Transplantation and Research Center.

Survival outcomes after D1 and D2 lymphadenectomy with R0 resection in stage II-III gastric cancer: Longitudinal follow-up in a single center.

Objective: D2 lymphadenectomy (D2-LND) with curative resection (R0) is the cornerstone of gastric cancer treatment. In this study, we compared survival outcomes of D2-LDN with D1-LDN in patients who had undergone curative resection for Stages II and III primary gastric adenocarcinoma.

Material And Methods: Between April 1996 and March 2014, 153 consecutive patients with adenocarcinoma of the stomach underwent total gastrectomy with D1-LND or D2-LND.

Evaluation of Indication Biopsies ≥5 Years After Kidney Transplant: A Single-Center Experience.

Objectives: Rejection is a common cause of late graft dysfunction seen on biopsy studies. The aim of this study was to evaluate indication biopsy findings ? 5 years after kidney transplant and to assess the effectiveness of applied treatments.

Materials And Methods: Between January 2013 and December 2015, 30 patients who underwent renal transplant indication biopsies and were followed up for ≥ 6 months were evaluated retrospectively.

Late Diagnosis of E148Q Mutation-Positive Familial Mediterranean Fever in a Kidney Transplant Patient With Fever of Unknown Origin: A Case Report.

Fever of unknown origin is a rare condition after solid organ transplant and is generally associated with atypical infections (eg, tuberculosis, fungal infections) and/or lymphoproliferative disorders. Here, we present a kidney transplant patient with a late diagnosis of E148Q mutation-positive familial Mediterranean fever as the cause of fever of unknown origin. A 22-year-old female patient with a previous history of 4 years of hemodialysis and unknown primary renal disease received a deceased-donor kidney transplant at our center 5 years previously.

Nonmelanoma Skin Cancers After Kidney Transplant: Our 15 Years of Experience With Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Inhibitors.

Objectives: We evaluated patients with nonmelanoma skin cancer after kidney transplant and the effects of immunosuppression reduction and switching to a mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor drugs.

Materials And Methods: Kidney transplant recipients were evaluated retrospectively from patient medical records (between January 2000 and December 2014). A 30% increase in serum creatinine was accepted as indicating renal failure progression.