Enhancing kidney transplant care through the integration of chatbot

OA Garcia Valencia, C Thongprayoon, CC Jadlowiec… - Healthcare, 2023 - mdpi.com
Kidney transplantation is a critical treatment option for end-stage kidney disease patients,
offering improved quality of life and increased survival rates. However, the complexities of …

BK polyomavirus: latency, reactivation, diseases and tumorigenesis

X Zhou, C Zhu, H Li - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The identification of the first human polyomavirus BK (BKV) has been over half century, The
previous epidemiological and phylogenetic studies suggest that BKV prevailed and co …

Use of pharmacogenetics to optimize immunosuppressant therapy in kidney-transplanted patients

V Urzì Brancati, C Scarpignato, L Minutoli, G Pallio - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Immunosuppressant drugs (ISDs) are routinely used in clinical practice to maintain organ
transplant survival. However, these drugs are characterized by a restricted therapeutic …

Systematic review and meta-analysis of calcineurin inhibitors on long-term prognosis of renal transplant patients

K Yang, M Zhang, B Zhang, Y Zhang, Q Zhao - Transplant Immunology, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Existing guidelines recommend a triple immunosuppressive regimen with
calcineurin inhibitors, antimetabolites, and corticosteroids for postoperative …

A Drug Safety Concept (I) to Avoid Polypharmacy Risks in Transplantation by Individual Pharmacotherapy Management in Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of …

U Wolf - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
For several, also vital medications, such as immunosuppressants in solid organ and
hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) remains the only …

Systematic review of calcineurin inhibitors and incidence of skin malignancies after kidney transplantation in adult patients: A study of 309,551 cases

A Kulbat, K Richter, T Stefura, M Kołodziej-Rzepa… - Current …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to compare the risk of non-
melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) and melanoma development in renal transplant recipients …

Chronic Kidney Disease Diets for Kidney Failure Prevention: Insights from the IL-11 Paradigm

D Elshoff, P Mehta, O Ziouzenkova - Nutrients, 2024 - mdpi.com
Nearly every fifth adult in the United States and many older adults worldwide are affected by
chronic kidney disease (CKD), which can progress to kidney failure requiring invasive …

Age associations with tacrolimus and mycophenolic acid pharmacokinetics in stable Black and White kidney transplant recipients: Implications for health inequities

KM Tornatore, K Attwood, RC Venuto… - Clinical and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tacrolimus (TAC) and mycophenolic acid (MPA) provide maintenance immunosuppression
and is dosed empirically in elderly kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) resulting in health …

Dynamic Monitoring of Intracellular Tacrolimus and Mycophenolic Acid Therapy in Renal Transplant Recipients Using Magnetic Bead Extraction Combined with LC …

H Xu, Y Liu, Y Zhang, X Dai, X Wang, H Chen, L Yan… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: Tacrolimus (TAC) and mycophenolic acid (MPA) are commonly used
immunosuppressive therapies after renal transplant. Our objective was to quantify TAC and …

Endobiogenic Biology of Function Indices in a Cohort of Kidney Transplant Recipients

E Mačionienė, D Serapinas, M Miglinas - Medicina, 2024 - mdpi.com
Background and Objectives: Endobiogeny is a global systems approach to human biology
based on the concept that the endocrine system manages the metabolism. Biology of …