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The shortage of available organs is the limiting factor for kidney transplantation (Ktx). One of the strategies to increase access to Ktx is the use of non-heart beating (NHB) donors. We herein present a successful Ktx f...

Combined heart-kidney transplantation is an accepted therapeutic option for patients with end-stage heart disease associated with severely impaired renal function. In literature there is not a consensus about the long te...

Non-Heart Beating is a new concept that has a potential to expand the donor pool of increasing number of chronic renal failure patients.

OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the incidence and risk factors for acute renal failure (ARF) and also the associated hazard of death in recipients of cardiac transplants. MATERIAL and METHODS: We included 25 patientsin the st...

Psychiatric and social rehabilitation is also very important as well as the medical rehabilitation after a successful transplantation. Encouragement of both marriage of single or widowed patients and becoming a parent of...

Peritoneal dialysis can be a therapy for the short-term management of refractory congestive heart failure, and fluid removal. At the same time it can serve as a long-term ambulatory management either as a palliative ther...

Takayasu arteritis is a vasculitis of aorta and large vessels and it is rarely diagnosed in childhood in Turkey. An 11-year old girl was admitted for the manifestations of hypertensive cardiomyopathy and congestive heart...

"Widespreadly performing cardiac operations and their successfull results, caused to think these operations in the patients with high risk and comorbidities, or for treated patients. Main reason of death in chronic renal...

Pericardial dialysate leakage in peritoneal dialysis patients is a rare but serious complication. Increase in intraabdominal pressure, peritonitis, adhesion due to abdominal procedures, and cardiac and pericardial proced...