Change in quality of life and immune markers after a stay at a raw vegan institute: a pilot study.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore changes in quality of life (QOL), anxiety, stress, and immune markers after a stay at a raw vegan institute.

Design: Prospective observational study.

Setting: English-speaking attendees at Hippocrates Health Institute (Florida, US), a raw vegan institute, were recruited on arrival and typically stayed 1-3 weeks.

Acute and hyperacute humoral rejection in kidney allograft recipients treated with anti-human thymocyte antibodies.

Equine and rabbit antihuman thymocyte globulins (ATGs) have been used in renal transplantation for prevention and treatment of acute rejection. We now report that hyperacute and acute antibody-mediated rejection of renal allografts occurred in three newly transplanted patients who received ATG for induction therapy. Antibody studies performed using complement-dependent cytotoxicity, flow cytometry, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and Luminex yielded negative results for antilymphocytic and antiendothelial cell antibodies in the pretransplant sera obtained from these patients.