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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2015

Personalization of the immunosuppressive treatment in renal transplant recipients: the great challenge in "omics" medicine.

Gianluigi Zaza, Simona Granata, Paola Tomei, Alessandra Dalla Gassa, Antonio Lupo

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Personalizing immunosuppressive therapy: predictors of drug switches in Malaysian kidney transplant recipients.Journal of pharmacy & pharmaceutical sciences : a publication of the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Societe canadienne des sciences pharmaceutiques · 2025
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  11. The nephrologist of tomorrow: towards a kidney-omic future.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2017
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  13. Toward Precision Medicine: How Far Is the Goal?International journal of molecular sciences · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Gianluigi ZazaRenal Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Piazzale A. Stefani, 1, 37126 Verona, Italy. gianluigi.zaza@univr.it.
Simona GranataRenal Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Piazzale A. Stefani, 1, 37126 Verona, Italy. simona.granata@univr.it.
Paola TomeiRenal Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Piazzale A. Stefani, 1, 37126 Verona, Italy. paola.tomei@univr.it.
Alessandra Dalla GassaRenal Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Piazzale A. Stefani, 1, 37126 Verona, Italy. alessandra.dallagassa@gmail.com.
Antonio LupoRenal Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Piazzale A. Stefani, 1, 37126 Verona, Italy. antonio.lupo@univr.it.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Renal transplantation represents the most favorable treatment for patients with advanced renal failure and it is followed, in most cases, by a significant enhancement in patients' quality of life. Significant improvements in one-year renal allograft and patients' survival rates have been achieved over the last 10 years primarily as a result of newer immunosuppressive regimens. Despite these notable achievements in the short-term outcome, long-term graft function and survival rates remain less than optimal. Death with a functioning graft and chronic allograft dysfunction result in an annual rate of 3%-5%. In this context, drug toxicity and long-term chronic adverse effects of immunosuppressive medications have a pivotal role. Unfortunately, at the moment, except for the evaluation of trough drug levels, no clinically useful tools are available to correctly manage immunosuppressive therapy. The proper use of these drugs could potentiate therapeutic effects minimizing adverse drug reactions. For this purpose, in the future, "omics" techniques could represent powerful tools that may be employed in clinical practice to routinely aid the personalization of drug treatment according to each patient's genetic makeup. However, it is unquestionable that additional studies and technological advances are needed to standardize and simplify these methodologies.

Indexed as

Kidney TransplantationAzathioprineCalcineurin InhibitorsGraft RejectionHumansImmunosuppressive AgentsKidney Failure, ChronicMycophenolic AcidPharmacogeneticsPrecision MedicineAzathioprineCalcineurin InhibitorsImmunosuppressive AgentsMycophenolic Acid

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PMID25690039
PMCPMC4346957

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