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Caesar
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⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈🌹💙Poetry, Kidneys, Transplant, TTV, virology, R.
Renal speciality trainee
Honorary Clinical Research Fellow, Bart's.
Chair, UKKA SpR club
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Yeah the Toronto experience with this is detailed here pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27083285/ in @kidneyint.bsky.social
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Specific post-transplant complications seen in the early cohort (1998–2005, n = 22) have been reported previously,6 but they included primary graft nonfunction, fungal sepsis, cerebrospinal abscess, wound infection, malignancy, and urine leaks. There was decreased overall allograft and patient survival to 3 years. Similar to these earlier commercial transplant recipients, the 2005 to 2013 recipients (n = 49) who received 50 renal allografts were ignorant of the donor selection process. Of these 50 transplant procedures, 27 were performed in South Asia, 13 in East Asia, 5 in Africa, 4 in West Asia, and 1 in South America. Medical documentation remained often incomplete, and translation was sometimes needed. Notable infectious complications (2005–2013) included hepatitis B seroconversion (n = 2), hepatitis C seroconversion (n = 5) with active hepatitis (n = 3) and fulminant hepatic failure (n = 1), pulmonary tuberculosis (n = 2), and extended spectrum beta-lactamase Escherichia coli urosepsis (n = 1). Surgical complications included 2 abdominal wall hernias and a type A dissecting aortic aneurysm occurring 2 months post-transplant. Only 1 patient in the 2005 to 2013 cohort required hospitalization on arrival, compared with 7 in the earlier cohort.6
April 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
caesarolgeezer.bsky.social
This feels very topical, as we discussed organ trafficking at the UK SpR Club meeting today.

I had the misfortune of caring for repatriated patients who developed fungal infections in their grafts following transplantation with trafficked organs, and I still remember the ethical dilemmas we faced.
April 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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My favourite so far
December 31, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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Please post them here! I loved them
December 21, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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December 21, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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They have delivered twice without success, Third time is the charm
December 11, 2024 at 2:40 PM