Kidney transplantation remains the gold standard treatment for patients suffering from end-
stage kidney disease. To meet the constantly growing organ demands grafts donated after …

The increased utilization of high-risk renal grafts for transplantation requires optimization of
pretransplant organ assessment strategies. Current decision-making methods to accept an …

Vascular endothelial cells (ECs) play a central role in the pathophysiology of many
diseases. The use of targeted nanoparticles (NPs) to deliver therapeutics to ECs could …

The increasing use of donation after circulatory death (DCD) and extended criteria donor
(ECD) organs has raised awareness of the need to improve the quality of kidneys for …

Nanomedicine is currently showing great promise for new methods of diagnosing and
treating many diseases, particularly in kidney disease and transplantation. The unique …

A shortage of available organs for liver transplantation has led transplant surgeons and
researchers to seek for innovative approaches in hepatoprotection and improvement of …

CONTEXT Prior criteria to define pediatric multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) did
not include gastrointestinal dysfunction. OBJECTIVES Our objective was to evaluate current …

Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) has emerged as a promising tool for the
preservation, viability assessment, and repair of deceased-donor kidneys prior to …

Polymeric nanoparticles are highly tunable drug delivery systems that show promise in
targeting therapeutics to specific sites within the body. Rational nanoparticle design can …

Background. Deceased donor livers are prone to biliary complications, which may
necessitate retransplantation, and we, and others, have suggested that these complications …