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International Journal of Organ Transplantation Medicine
Volume:9 Issue: 3, Summer 2018

  • تاریخ انتشار: 1397/05/20
  • تعداد عناوین: 7
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  • L. Kasraian*, S. Nikeghbalian, M. H. Karimi, E. Ahad Page 105
    Background
    Estimation of the amount of blood products required during liver transplantation can help provision of adequate blood supply, minimize transfusion-associated complications, and plan ahead for preventive measures in high risk patients.
    Objective
    To investigate independent predictors of peri-operative blood product transfusion and its impact on short-term survival of liver transplant recipients.
    Methods
    In a cross-sectional study, old charts of patients who underwent liver transplantation between March 2003 and March 2013 at Namazi Hospital, Shiraz, Iran, were reviewed. The mean amount of blood product utilized during surgery and hospital stay and the related factors, including demographic characteristics, pre-transplant laboratory data, pre-transplant clinical data, operation data, and post transplantation data were recorded.
    Results
    We studied 1198 patients who underwent liver transplantation. The mean±SD amounts of red cells, fresh frozen plasma, and platelet transfusion during surgery and hospital stay were 2.67±3.5, 2.06±3.8, and 1.6±3.8 units, respectively. The mortality rate was significantly higher in patients who received higher amounts of blood products (p
    Conclusion
    Pre-operative factors may predict blood transfusion requirements in patients undergoing liver transplantation. Therefore, evaluation of patients before operation should be considered to provide adequate blood supply and minimize transfusion-associated complications. Understanding pre-operative factors associated with rate of transfusion may help us to best utilize the limited available blood resources.
    Keywords: Blood loss, Liver transplantation, Blood product transfusion, Survival rate
  • S.R. Safayi, F. Shahi, M. Ghalamkari *, M. Mirzania, M. Khatuni, F. Hirmandi Niasar Page 112
    Background
    Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a potentially cure for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Patients who undergone HSCT are at increased risk of infection due to impaired immunity.
    Objective
    To evaluate the rate of bacterial, viral and fungal infection and its relationship with 2-year overall survival of AML patients who had undergone HSCT.
    Methods
    This was a retrospective cross-sectional study of 49 patients who underwent allogenic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) from full-matched donors at BMT Center, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran, Iran, from 2006 to 2013. All autologous transplantations and promyelocytic leukemia (PML) transplantations were excluded.
    Results
    All patients, except for one, had fever for a mean of 7 days post-transplantation and received broad-spectrum antibiotic. The rate of severe sepsis was 6.1%. None of the patients developed fungal infection during admission. The rate of admission due to sepsis after discharge was 27% in the alive group (mean onset of 54 days), and 73% in the deceased group (mean onset of 52 days) (p
    Conclusion
    The rate of infection was a negative prognostic factor for 2-year overall survival. The rate of CMV antigenemia is less than similar studies (51%), which could be due to full-matched donor-recipients requiring less immunosuppression.
    Keywords: Bone marrow transplantation, Infection, Acute myeloid leukemia
  • R. Yaghobi, F. Alizadeh*, A. Khodavandi Page 119
    Background
    Syndrome of transient bone marrow suppression may result from various extra-hematological diseases, such as immunological deregulations, and viral infectious diseases secondarily affecting the function of hematopoietic stem cells.
    Objective
    To evaluate the pathogenic role of herpes viruses and their contraction with I 10 cytokine gene polymorphism, which can impair hematopoiesis in patients with transient bone marrow suppression.
    Methods
    In a cross-sectional study 30 patients who admitted to Namazi Hospital, affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, with transient bone marrow suppression were recruited. Diagnosis of the transient bone marrow suppression was made by expert hematologists. A control group consisting of 100 healthy unrelated individuals was also included. One EDTA-treated blood sample was collected from each studied patients and plasma was isolated. The molecular prevalence of cytomegalovirus and HHV8 evaluated was evaluated using real-time and nested PCR protocols, respectively. The SNPs of the IL10 (rs 1800896-1082G/A) cytokine gene was evaluated by PCR-RFLP method.
    Results
    Cytomegalovirus and HHV8 infections were found in 2 and 3 of studied patients with transient bone marrow suppression. Significant higher frequency of IL10 G allele and GG genotype were found in HHV8-infected patients comparing to uninfected ones. Higher frequencies of A allele and AG and AA genotypes of IL10 were found in cytomegalovirus-uninfected patients comparing to infected ones, respectively. The significant higher frequencies of IL10 AA and AG genotypes were found in controls compared to bone marrow suppressed patients.
    Conclusion
    IL10 genetic polymorphism might have determinative role in resistance to the cytomegalovirus, especially HHV8 infections, in patients with bone marrow suppression. Focus in new interaction between HHV8 infection and IL10 genetics in bone marrow suppressed patients should be completed by the analysis of the anti-herpes virus immunity in future studies.
    Keywords: Human herpes virus 8, Cytomegalovirus, Interleukin 10, Bone marrow
  • H. Akbari, A. Piroozmand, E. Dadgostar, H. Nikoueinejad *, Z. Chitsazian, B. Einollahi Page 126
    Background
    Transfusion-transmitted virus (TTV) is a single-stranded DNA virus. Renal transplant patients have a higher risk of TTV infection.
    Objective
    To evaluate the prevalence of TTV and its correlation with post-renal transplantation complications in a population of Iranian patients.
    Methods
    A cross-sectional study was performed on 120 renal transplant recipients. TTV infection in the peripheral blood samples was detected by semi-nested polymerase chain reaction (semi nested PCR). Then, the relationship between TTV and renal post-transplant complications was examined.
    Results
    34.2% renal transplant recipients were positive for TTV. There was a significant correlation between the presence of TTV and diabetes, acute transplant rejection, and urinary tract infection. We did not find any direct correlation between the presence of TTV infection and hypertension, hyperlipidemia, respiratory tract infection, and cytomegalovirus infection.
    Conclusion
    We found an increased rate of TTV infection in renal transplant recipients associated with post-transplantation complications. TTV may be an important risk factor for some post renal transplantation complications.
    Keywords: Renal transplantation, Transfusion, transmitted virus, Post, transplantation complications
  • S. Akbulut *, B. Isik, Y. Karipkiz, S. Yilmaz Page 132
    Despite having many advantages, living donor liver transplantation has not been adopted by western countries due to risk of nearly life-threatening complications after living donor hepatectomy (LDH). Herein, we aimed at presenting the management of a 19-year-old patient who suffered life-threatening complications after right lobe LDH. A multiple detector computed tomography (MDCT) revealed a bilioma at the cut surface of the remnant liver, for which a transhepatic drainage catheter was placed. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) performed to decompress biliary tract, but the biliary tract could not be cannulized due to post-precut bleeding. On the next day, extensive crepitation was detected and MDCT showed subcutaneous emphysema, pneumoperitoneum, pneumoretroperitoneum, and pneumoscrotum (ERCP-related duodenal perforation?). However, the patient showed significant deterioration of physical examination findings, fever, and infectious parameters, and therefore was taken to the operating room. Kocher maneuver revealed no apparent duodenal perforation. Then, a 2-mm bile duct was found open at the caudate lobe, through which bile leaked. Then, common bile duct exploration and T-tube placement were performed, followed by suture closure of the bile orifice at the caudate lobe. Massive air previously identified completely disappeared one week after the operation.
    Keywords: Living donor hepatectomy, Biliary complication, ERCP, related complication, Duodenal perforation
  • B. Baharestani, A. Amin, B. Ghadrdoost, M. Behjati * Page 137
    Concomitant replacement of the ascending aorta and heart transplantation are an infrequent procedure. This procedure was most often performed in patients with Marfan syndrome, however, it has its own technical difficulties. Hereby, we report on combined heart transplantation and aortic root replacement using donor’s ascending aorta in a 25-year-old man diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy and ascending aorta aneurysm. This procedure was successful and beneficial to patients with aortopathy who are candidates for heart transplantation.
    Keywords: Heart transplantation, Aortic aneurysm, Aortic root replacement
  • B. Shakerian*, N. Razavi, M. H. Mandegar Page 140
    The incidence of invasive fungal infections is lower than that of bacterial infections in heart transplant recipients. However, they are always life-threatening. Clinical manifestations may range from asymptomatic colonization to disseminated infection. This complication is responsible for significant morbidity and mortality, particularly in heart transplant recipients. Herein, we present on a cardiac transplant recipient who presented with invasive pulmonary aspergillosis quickly leading to death, in spite of early diagnosis and aggressive therapy. It just took 10 hours from the diagnosis to death. In other reports, this period was at least 12 days.
    Keywords: Aspergillus, Heart transplant, Fungal infection