Outcome of Kidney Transplantation From Living Donors With Multiple Renal Arteries Versus Single Renal Artery.

Introduction: Receiving a kidney transplant from donors with multiple renal arteries (MRAs) is suggested to be associated with higher risk of vascular and urologic complications and poor allograft outcomes compared to the donors with single renal artery (SRA). We evaluated survival rates in the recipients from donors with MRAs compared to those from donors with SRA.

Materials And Methods: In a retrospective study on 115 kidney allograft recipients, demographic characteristics and the outcomes of kidney transplantation were compared between the recipients from donors with MRAs compared to those from donors with SRA.

Candida infection in the intensive care unit: A study of antifungal susceptibility pattern of Candida species in Milad hospital, Tehran, Iran.

Objective: The occurrence of Candida infections has improved during the past two decades as a result of increase in the number of immunocompromised patients. In this study the antifungal susceptibility patterns of Candida species isolated from sterile body sites of patients admitted in Milad Intensive Care Unit (ICU) during 6 months were determined.

Methods: Candidal isolates were obtained from 50 patients admitted in Milad ICUs from April to September 2013.

Successful treatment of Chronic Myelogenic Leukemia (CML) with imatinib after renal transplantation.

Chronic Myelogenic Leukemia (CML) is a rare malignant disorder after solid organ transplantation, especially in renal transplant recipients. Imatinib Mesylate is currently approved as first line treatment of CML. Most reports on CML are from kidney recipients who received azathioprine  in combination with cyclosporine and prednisolone as immunosuppressive therapy.