Psychosocial risk factors for impaired health-related quality of life in living kidney donors: results from the ELIPSY prospective study.

Living kidney donors' follow-up is usually focused on the assessment of the surgical and medical outcomes. Whilst the psychosocial follow-up is advocated in literature. It is still not entirely clear which exact psychosocial factors are related to a poor psychosocial outcome of donors.

Use of Tacrolimus During Pregnancy After Kidney Transplantaion.

Purpose: Motherhood is the greatest privilege that nature gives to women. Although pregnancy is a physiological event for women, every pregnancy is a risky pregnancy. During a normal pregnancy, the health of mother and baby are monitored.

Ex vivo stone surgery in donor kidneys at renal transplantation.

Objective: To report our experience on the outcomes of ex vivo ureteroscopy and ex vivo pyelolithotomy carried out on the donor kidney before living donor renal transplantation.

Methods: Between 2009 and 2016, 13 stone-bearing donor kidneys underwent ex vivo bench surgery after donor nephrectomy. Of these, six patients underwent ex vivo ureteroscopy and seven patients underwent ex vivo pyelolithotomy.

Prevalence of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Asymptomatic Renal Transplant Recipients.

Objectives: Sexually transmitted diseases, which may be asymptomatic, have the potential to cause serious health problems in renal transplant recipients. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases in sexually active asymptomatic renal transplant patients by using real-time multiplex polymerase chain reaction assays.

Materials And Methods: This prospective controlled study was conducted between November 2016 and January 2017 in our hospital.

Comparative Results of Transurethral Incision with Transurethral Resection of The Prostate in Renal Transplant Recipients with Benign Prostate Hyperplasia.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to compare the results of transurethral incision of the prostate (TUIP) and transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) for the surgical treatment of benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) in patients with renal transplantation.

Materials And Methods: Between April 2009 and May 2016, BPH patients with renal transplants whose prostate volumes were less than 30 cm3 were treated surgically. Forty-seven patients received TURP and 32 received TUIP.

Outcomes of combined cardiac surgery and kidney transplant compared with kidney transplant after cardiac surgery.

Context: Patients with chronic renal failure have a high prevalence of coronary artery disease and cardiovascular death. The mortality and the morbidity rates of cardiac surgery are particularly high in these patients with end-stage renal disease. Performing cardiac surgery and kidney transplant in the same session can reduce these complications in the early postoperative period by normalizing renal function.

Evaluation of the first 100 liver transplantations.

Background/aims: We aimed to present the experience of the first 100 liver transplantations carried out at Akdeniz University.

Methods: The data of 100 patients in pediatric and adult age groups who underwent liver transplantation at Akdeniz University Organ Transplantation Center between January 2000 and January 2007 were examined retrospectively. The cases between January 2000 and December 2003 were evaluated as the first term and those between January 2004 and January 2007 as the second term.

Recipients' perceptions of their transplanted kidneys.

Background: The literature indicates few studies on kidney patients' perception of the donor kidney. In light of this fact, we decided to explore this issue with adult patients.

Methods: We carried out a phenomenological study with 40 adult kidney patients.

Effects of some hematological parameters on whole blood tacrolimus concentration measured by two immunoassay-based analytical methods.

Objectives: Tacrolimus (FK506) is a potent immunosuppressive drug used for prevention of rejection following transplantation. Several methods including immunoassays have been used for monitoring tacrolimus levels. The purpose of the present study was to compare the effects of various hematological parameters on whole blood tacrolimus concentrations which were measured with two different analytical methods, namely the microparticle enzyme immunoassay (MEIA II) and enzyme multiplied immunoassay technique (EMIT).