Transplant Medication Management for Patients Nearing End of Life #333

James A , Mannon RB : The cost of transplant therapy: Is this sustainable?. Curr Transplant Rep, 2016; 2:113–121.

Green M : Introduction: Infections in solid organ transplantation. Am J Transplant, 2013; 13:3–8.

Chapman JR , Webster AC , Wong G : Cancer in the transplant recipient. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med, 2013; 3:a015677.

Kasiski BL , Chakkera HA , Louis TA , Ma JZ : A meta-analysis of immunosuppression withdrawal trials in renal transplantation. J Am Soc Neprhol, 2000; 11:1910–1917.

London MC , Rimola A , Grady JO , Sanchez-Fueyo A : Immunosuppression minimization vs. complete drug withdrawal in liver transplantation. J Hepatol, 2013; 59:872–879.

Pham PTT , Nast , et al.: Diagnosis and therapy of graft dysfunction. In: Periera BJG , Sayegh , et al. (eds): Chronic Kidney Disease, Dialysis and Transplantation, 2. Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, 2005, pp. 641.

Liver Transplant: www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/liver-disease/liver-transplant

De Vito Dabbs A , Hoffman LA , Iacono AT , et al.: Are symptom reports useful for differentiating between acute rejection and pulmonary infection after lung transplantation?. Heart Lung, 2004; 33:372.

Mills RM , Naftel DC , Kirklin JK , et al.: Heart transplant rejection with hemodynamic compromise: A multiinstitutional study of the role of endomyocardial cellular infiltrate. Cardiac Transplant Research Database. J Heart Lung Transplant, 1997; 16:813.

Shinn C , Malhotra D , Chan L , et al.: Time course of response to pulse methylprednisolone therapy in renal transplant recipients with acute allograft rejection. Am J Kidney Dis, 1999; 34:304.

Volpin R , Angeli P , Galioto A , et al.: Comparison between two high-dose methylprednisolone schedules in the treatment of acute hepatic cellular rejection in liver transplant recipients: A controlled clinical trial. Liver Transpl, 2002; 8:527.

Martinu T , Pavlisko EN , Chen DF , Palmer SM. : Acute allograft rejection: Cellular and humoral processes. Clin Chest Med, 2011; 32:295.

Wahlers T , Heublein B , Cremer J , et al.: Treatment of rejection after heart transplantation: What dosage of pulsed steroids is necessary?. J Heart Transplant, 1990; 9:568–574.

Sanchez-Fueyo A , Strom TB : Immunologic bases of graft rejection and tolerance following transplantation of liver or other solid organs. Gastroenterology, 2011; 140:10.