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ArticleHippokratia2009

Brain dead donor kidneys are immunologically active: is intervention justified?

G Vergoulas, P Boura, G Efstathiadis

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Article in Hippokratia, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

G VergoulasOrgan Transplant Unit, Hippokratio General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece. geover@otenet.gr
P Boura
G Efstathiadis
Ippokrateio General Hospital of Thessaloniki · GR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The improvement in the field of kidney transplantation, during the last decades, has brought kindey transplantation to the top of patient preference as the best kidney replacement therapy. The use of marginal kidney grafts, which are highly immunogenic has become common practice because of lack of kidney donors. Inflammatory activity in the kidneys after brain death is an ongoing phenomenon. The inappropriate treatment of brain dead donor may result to primary non function (PNF) of the graft, delayed graft function (DGF) or to long term graft dysfunction and shortened graft survival. Therefore correct handling of the brain dead donor is of paramount importance. The impact of various pharmacologic agents (catecholamines, glucocorticoids, carbamylated recombinant human erythropoietin, recombinant soluble P-selectin glycoprotein ligant, heme oxygenase-1, carbon monoxide, and mycophenolate mofetil) on the immunogenicity of brain dead donor kidneys is discussed.

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brain deathcortico steroidscyclosporine Aimmunointerventionimmunosuppressionkidney donorkidney transplantationmycophenolate mofetil

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PMID20011083
PMCPMC2776332
OpenAlexW2207867809

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