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Characterization of emergency department visits in pediatric patients within first year of liver transplantation: ten years experience in tertiary care center
Pediatric Transplant 6 min.
Liver transplant is one of the major advances in medicine and one of the most performed surgeries in transplant. In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the first liver transplant was performed in 1991. However, pediatric liver transplant didn’t start until 1997, trailed by adult living donor transplant...
The effect of fecal microbial transplantation in a pediatric patient after 28 episodes of febrile urinary tract infection
Pediatric Transplant 2 min.
Recurrent fUTIs represent a significant clinical challenge, frequently resulting in multiple hospitalizions and extensive medical interventions. Furthermore, recurrent fUTIs may lead to significant consequences such as renal scarring, arterial hypertension, and progressive CKD [1]. All of these features...
Anti-thymocyte globulin combined with post-transplantation cyclophosphamide reduce graft-versus-host disease in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for pediatric leukemia
Pediatric Transplant 1 min.
This retrospective analysis evaluated the use of anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) with or without post-transplantation cyclophosphamide (PTCy) for graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) prophylaxis in children with acute leukemia undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). The study included 57...
Haploidentical Stem Cell Transplantation With TCR-[alpha][beta]+/CD19+ Depletion in High-risk Pediatric Leukemias: Experience From a Referral Center in Peru.
Pediatric Transplant 1 min.
Haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (haplo-HSCT) using TCR [alpha][beta]+/CD19+ depletion provides an alternative treatment for patients with high-risk (HR) leukemias without a matched donor, especially in developing nations with limited donor registries. We present the outcomes of...
