Malnutrition in Very Old Hospitalized Patients: A New Etiologic Factor of Anemia?

Background: Anemia and malnutrition are highly prevalent, frequently concomitant and associated with negative outcomes and mortality in the elderly.

Objectives: To evaluate the association between these two entities, and test the hypothesis that protein-energy deficit could be etiology of anemia.

Design: Prospective case-control study.

Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders in renal allograft recipients: report of 53 cases of a French multicenter study. PTLD French Working Group.

New immunosuppressive therapies are currently being developed in renal transplantation and their relative risk in terms of posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLD) must be carefully evaluated. For this purpose, a French registry of PTLD occurring after renal transplantation was set up. Among 10,000 patients presently followed up in 30 French renal transplantation centers, we prospectively identified 53 new PTLD (0.