Increasing Performance of Professional Soccer Players and Elite Track and Field Athletes with Peak Performance Training and Biofeedback: A Pilot Study.

The aim of this pilot study was to investigate the effects of an intervention consisting of mental coaching combined with either electro encephalogram (EEG) alpha power feedback or heart rate variability (HRV) feedback on HRV, EEG outcomes and self-reported factors related to stress, performance, recovery and sleep quality in elite athletes. A prospective pilot study was performed with two distinct cohorts. Soccer players were provided with four sessions of mental coaching combined with daily HRV biofeedback (Group A); track and field athletes were provided with four sessions of mental coaching in combination with daily neurofeedback (Group B).

Early Conversion to Prednisolone/Everolimus as an Alternative Weaning Regimen Associates With Beneficial Renal Transplant Histology and Function: The Randomized-Controlled MECANO Trial.

In renal transplantation, use of calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs) is associated with nephrotoxicity and immunosuppression with malignancies and infections. This trial aimed to minimize CNI exposure and total immunosuppression while maintaining efficacy. We performed a randomized controlled, open-label multicenter trial with early cyclosporine A (CsA) elimination.

Gastrointestinal symptoms in kidney transplant recipients: what about silent sufferers?

Context: Transplantation improves health-related quality of life in patients with end-stage renal disease. However, primarily because of adverse effects of medication, among other gastrointestinal symptoms, health-related quality of life is not completely restored to normal. Although many patients have various gastrointestinal symptoms only a small proportion may be reported spontaneously.

Minimization of maintenance immunosuppression early after renal transplantation: an interim analysis.

Introduction: Chronic allograft nephropathy is the main cause of long-term renal transplant failure. Chronic use of calcineurin inhibitors contributes to its pathogenesis. Here, we report on a multicenter randomized trial to study the effects of withdrawal of cyclosporine A (CsA) from a triple immunosuppressive regimen containing CsA, prednisolone (P), and mycophenolate sodium (MPS) early after transplantation.

[Intestinal perforation caused by tuberculosis in a kidney transplant patient who was extensively evaluated for tuberculosis prior to transplant].

A 47-year-old man from Armenia presented at the emergency department with abdominal pain. He had had a kidney transplant 2 years earlier for renal failure caused by amyloidosis that was secondary to familial Mediterranean fever. He was also known to have chronic hepatitis B with persistent viraemia.