Concerns of and coping strategies by parents of pediatric liver transplant recipients: a qualitative study from China.

Parents of liver transplant recipient children have to face complicated health issues of their children. Coping strategies of parents as major care providers not only impacts on their handling of stresses on themselves but also on the recipients' quality of life. In this study, we sought to investigate the coping strategies of parents of Chinese pediatric liver transplant recipients at a single tertiary care institution in China.

Tacrolimus reversibly reduces insulin secretion, induces insulin resistance, and causes islet cell damage in rats.

Objective: To investigate the diabetogenic effects of the immunosuppressive agent tacrolimus, the reversibility of these effects upon treatment discontinuation, and the underlying mechanisms in a rat model.

Materials And Methods: 60 healthy male rats were randomly divided into three groups for intragastric administration of tacrolimus either at 4 mg/kg/d or 2 mg/kg/d or an equal volume of normal saline (control). The treatment was administered for 5 months, followed by a 5-month period of no intervention.

[Causes and therapeutic principles of pulmonary infections in renal transplant recipients].

Pulmonary infection after renal transplantation is a well recognized and prevalent postoperative complication, which can occur at either the early stage or late stage after transplantation. The etiology and this phenomenon and its impacts remains unclear. It may be life-threatening in severe patients.

[The study of the different medicating ways and the formula for intravenous loading dosage of hepatitis B immunoglobulin in liver transplantation].

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of hepatitis B immunoglobulin (HBIG) by different medicating ways in patients with liver transplantation and to explore the methods for calculating the intravenous loading dosage of HBIG.

Methods: The patients enrolled were randomized into three groups (i.v group, i.

[Liver transplantation for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma].

Objective: To retrospectively evaluate the clinical outcomes of liver transplantation for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Methods: The clinical data of 88 consecutive HCC patients who underwent orthotopic liver transplantation between 2002. 4 and 2004.

[Assay of carnitine in plasma and urine of healthy adults].

Objective: To determine the levels of carnitine in plasma and daily excretion of carnitine in urine of healthy adults so as to provide the reference standard for studying the changes of carnitine in patients.

Methods: Carnitine in plasma and urine was assayed with high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The levels of total carnitine (TC), free carnitine (FC) and acetyl-carnitine (AC) in fasting plasma and the daily excretion of TC, FC and AC in urine were assayed in 40 healthy adults (20 men and 20 women) with standard diet.