Development and Evaluation of a Training Program for Organ Procurement Coordinators Using Standardized Patient Methodology.

Objectives: The low rate of consent by next of kin of donor-eligible patients is a major limiting factor in organ transplant. Educating health care professionals about their role may lead to measurable improvements in the process. Our aim was to describe the developmental steps of a communication skills training program for health care professionals using standardized patients and to evaluate the results.

Renal transplantation experience in a patient with factor V Leiden homozygous, MTHFR C677T heterozygous, and PAI heterozygous mutation.

Vascular complications are important causes of allograft loss in renal transplantation. A two and a half-month-old boy was diagnosed with posterior urethral valve and progressed to end-stage renal disease at eight yr of age. During the HD period, a central venous catheter was replaced three times for repeated thrombosis.

Right atrial thrombosis complicating renal transplantation in a child.

Nephrotic syndrome represents a form of acquired thrombophilia thereby causing increased risk of thrombosis. In patients with nephrotic syndrome both venous and arterial thrombosis can occur; however, intracardiac thrombus is among the rarest reported in the literature. In this case report, we present a 10.

Carotid intima-media thickness in children and young adults with renal transplant: Internal carotid artery vs. common carotid artery.

Cardiovascular diseases are the main causes of morbidity and mortality following renal transplantation. Atherosclerotic structural changes, which can be detected by high-resolution B-mode ultrasonography, begin before clinical findings. However, little is known about the extent of these abnormalities in children after renal transplantation.