Publications by authors named "Rashad Hassan"

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  • Drought stress negatively impacts the yield quality and quantity of crops, but the use of nano-elements and water-retaining agents can enhance growth under these conditions.
  • Field experiments demonstrated that applying nanoparticles like N-silicon, N-zinc, and N-zeolite significantly improved various growth metrics (fresh/dry weight, leaf area, root length) of drought-stressed coriander plants, with average improvements of up to 75.81%.
  • The treatments also boosted physiological factors such as chlorophyll content and photosynthetic efficiency while reducing stress markers and transpiration rates, leading to higher seed and oil yields in drought conditions.
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Although chronic kidney disease decreases fertility, kidney transplantation provides restoration of fertility in women, enabling them to get pregnant. Data available from registries have shown that pregnancy is feasible in solid-organ transplant recipients without significant impact on long-term graft function. Despite these reassuring data, some studies have reported that one-third of female transplant recipients are still actively being counseled against pregnancy.

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Objectives: The idea of transplanting organs is not new, nor is the disease of obesity. Obese transplant recipients have greater risk of early death than their cohorts, which is not due to increased rejection but due to obesity-related complications, including arterial hypertension, diabetes, and delayed graft function. Here, our aim was to evaluate the effects of bariatric surgery versus lifestyle changes on outcomes of moderate to severely obese renal transplant recipients.

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Objectives: There are no comparable trials concerning the use of rituximab among renal transplant recipients with acute antibody-mediated rejection. Here, we compared early and late acute antibody-mediated rejection in renal transplant recipients in terms of response to rituximab therapy.

Materials And Methods: Of 1230 kidney transplants performed at Hamed Al-Essa Organ Transplant Center (Kuwait) over the past 10 years, 103 recipients developed acute antibody-mediated rejections and were subcategorized into 4 groups according to the onset of rejection and rituximab treatment.

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Chronic antibody-mediated rejection among kidney transplant recipients is a major unresolved problem which is covered in this review article which included different lines of its management.

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Previous studies have suggested that loss of bone mineral density (BMD) frequently occurs in patients with chronic viral liver disease, presenting with histologically proven liver cirrhosis. However, little is known about the occurrence of bone disease in non-cirrhotic patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Furthermore, to the best of our knowledge, such an effect has never been studied in pediatric renal transplant recipients.

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The recurrence rate of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis after kidney transplantation is ranging between 20% and 40%. Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis is associated with poor graft survival. In this review, the etiology, pathogenesis, clinicopathological features, risk factors of recurrence, and updated lines of management are discussed.

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To evaluate the effects of gender on HRQOL and overall health status in our pediatric kidney transplants. We performed a cross-sectional study in 77 children who received living renal allo-transplants in our center between 1981 and 2003. The patients were given a questionnaire at a post-transplant visit.

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Introduction: Chronic Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection has been associated with glomerular disease in native and transplanted kidneys. We evaluated the presence of HCV infection at the time of transplantation and occurrence of proteinuria in Egyptian kidney transplant patients and their link with graft survival.

Materials And Methods: This retrospective study was done on 273 patients with end-stage renal disease transplanted in Mansoura Urology and Nephrology Center Between 1993 and 1996.

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Background: Because of its potential nephrotoxicity, the long-term use of cyclosporine (CsA) as treatment for nephrotic syndrome (NS) is controversial. The clinical outcome of the patients with NS treated with CsA is unclear.

Methods: This study reports the results of long-term CsA treatment in 117 children with idiopathic NS, who received CsA therapy for more than 2 years (median, 34 months).

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