Search Results - "McKane, W."
-
1
Biomarkers of Tolerance in Kidney Transplantation: Are We Predicting Tolerance or Response to Immunosuppressive Treatment?
Published in American journal of transplantation (01-12-2016)“…We and others have previously described signatures of tolerance in kidney transplantation showing the differential expression of B cell–related genes and the…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
2
Phrenic Nerve Stimulation for the Treatment of Central Sleep Apnea: A Pooled Cohort Analysis
Published in Journal of clinical sleep medicine (15-12-2019)“…Early evidence with transvenous phrenic nerve stimulation (PNS) demonstrates improved disease severity and quality of life (QOL) in patients with central sleep…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
3
Role of calcium intake in modulating age-related increases in parathyroid function and bone resorption
Published in The journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (01-05-1996)“…Serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) and bone resorption increase in elderly women and contribute to age-related bone loss. Whether these abnormalities are caused…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
4
8B.07: RESULTS FROM THE UK RENAL DENERVATION AFFILIATION- 246 CASES FROM 17 CENTRES
Published in Journal of hypertension (01-06-2015)“…OBJECTIVE:To describe the UK experience with Renal Denervation (RDN). DESIGN AND METHOD:RDN may lower blood pressure (BP) in people with resistant…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
5
Quality of Life of Living Kidney Donors: A Single-Center Experience
Published in Transplantation proceedings (01-06-2008)“…Abstract Renal transplantation improves the quality of life (QoL) of patients with end-stage renal disease. The preservation of QoL of living kidney donors is…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
6
Plasmacytoid dendritic cells produce cytokines and mature in response to the TLR7 agonists, imiquimod and resiquimod
Published in Cellular immunology (01-07-2002)“…The immune response modifiers, imiquimod and resiquimod, are TLR7 agonists that induce type I interferon in numerous species, including humans. Recently, it…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
7
In patients with heart failure the burden of central sleep apnea increases in the late sleep hours
Published in Sleep (New York, N.Y.) (01-01-2019)“…Abstract Study Objectives Periodic breathing with central sleep apnea (CSA) is common in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Based on the…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
8
Mechanism of renal calcium conservation with estrogen replacement therapy in women in early postmenopause--a clinical research center study
Published in The journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (01-12-1995)“…To assess the mechanism by which estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) enhances renal calcium conservation in perimenopausal women, we studied 18 normal women in…”
Get more information
Journal Article -
9
Clinical and financial impact of sleep disordered breathing on heart failure admissions
Published in Sleep & breathing (01-10-2023)“…Background The impact of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) on heart failure (HF) is increasingly recognized. However, limited data exist in support of…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
10
De novo membranous nephropathy associated with donor‐specific alloantibody
Published in Clinical transplantation (01-01-2008)“…: Recent evidence suggests that alloantibody may play an aetiological role in the pathogenesis of membranous glomerulopathy in native kidneys. There is an…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
11
Renal Transplantation After Endovascular Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Published in Transplantation proceedings (01-06-2007)“…Abstract An increasing number of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) occur in renal failure patients because of strong association between atherosclerosis and…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
12
Pirfenidone inhibits obliterative airway disease in a murine heterotopic tracheal transplant model
Published in Transplantation (15-03-2004)“…Chronic lung allograft rejection in the form of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome and its histopathologic correlate, obliterative bronchiolitis (OB), are a…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
13
Design of the remedē System Therapy (rēST) study: A prospective non-randomized post-market study collecting clinical data on safety and effectiveness of the remedē system for the treatment of central sleep apnea
Published in Sleep medicine (01-12-2022)“…Central sleep apnea (CSA) is a disorder defined by lack of respiratory drive from the brain stem on breathing efforts. There is a lack of established therapies…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
14
Colitis in a renal transplant patient with human herpesvirus‐6 infection
Published in Transplant infectious disease (01-12-2006)“…: A male patient developed colitis and a thrombotic microangiopathy 3 weeks after renal transplantation. Immunosuppression at the time of presentation was with…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
15
Wegener's granulomatosis presenting as acute suppurative interstitial nephritis
Published in Journal of clinical pathology (01-10-2001)“…A 78 year old man presented with acute renal failure following a prolonged respiratory illness. A renal biopsy demonstrated severe suppurative interstitial…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
16
Circulating levels of cytokines that modulate bone resorption: Effects of age and menopause in women
Published in Journal of bone and mineral research (01-08-1994)“…Interleukin 1αa (IL‐1α), interleukin 1β (IL‐1β), and interleukin 6 (IL‐6) are cytokines with potent bone‐resorbing effects; some of these biologic effects are…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
17
Human immune responses to porcine endogenous retrovirus-derived peptides presented naturally in the context of porcine and human major histocompatibility complex class I molecules: Implications in xenotransplantation of porcine organs
Published in Transplantation (27-05-2004)“…Porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERV) have been shown to infect human cells, raising concerns regarding safety of xenotransplantation. In patients exposed to…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
18
Xenoreactive anti-Galα(1,3)Gal antibodies prevent porcine endogenous retrovirus infection of human in vivo
Published in Human immunology (01-07-2003)“…The discovery of porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERV) has raised concerns regarding the safety of pig to human xenotransplantation. In this study, we…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
19
Natural antibodies prevent in vivo transmission of porcine islet-derived endogenous retrovirus to human cells
Published in Cell transplantation (01-01-2004)“…The discovery of porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERV) has raised concerns regarding the safety of porcine xenotransplantation. However, transmission of PERV…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
20
The fleur-de-lis upper gracilis flap for breast reconstruction: flap design and outcome
Published in Annals of plastic surgery (01-10-2012)“…We evaluated a fleur-de-lis design for the gracilis myocutaneous flap to improve flap volume for breast reconstruction. Thirty-one flaps were used in 17…”
Get full text
Journal Article