It is time to look inward

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The 2005 SRTR Report on the State of Transplantation

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2009 SRTR Report on the State of Transplantation

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In Memoriam – University of Michigan Transplant Flight Team, June 4, 2007

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Tool value: The liver donor risk index 8 years on

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Authors' Response: The Riskiest Job in Medicine: Transplant Surgeons and Organ Procurement Travel

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“Doc, should I accept this offer or not?”

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Trends in Organ Donation and Transplantation in the United States, 1999–2008

Received 30 September 2009, revised 14 December 2009 and accepted for publication 18 December 2009Note on sources: The articles in this report are based on the reference tables in the 2009 OPTN/SRTR Annual Report . Table numbers are noted in brackets and may be found online at: http://ustransplant.org .Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/79137/1/j.1600-6143.2010.03021.x.pd

Systematic bias in surgeons' predictions of the donor‐specific risk of liver transplant graft failure

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Estimation of In Vivo Reticuloendothelial System Phagocytic Activity in Rats by Direct Blood Clearance Techniques and Nuclear Scintigraphy

There has been considerable interest in the examination off reticuloendothelial system phagocytic blockade. In this study, the kinetics of phospholipid liposome‐mediated and intraperitoneal silica‐mediated phagocytic blockade were examined using five methods off analysis off in vivo 99mTc‐labeled albumin clearance and reticuloendothelial cell uptake. Two direct blood sampling techniques revealed significant impairment in 99mTc‐labeled albumin clearance after treatment with silica (P < 0.05), while liposome treatment was not associated with such impairment. A method utilizing nuclear scintigraphy for the determination of blood clearance was incapable of detecting silica‐mediated blockade but demonstrated significant impairment by liposomes at 2 hr (P < 0.001), 6 hr (P < 0.05), and 24 hr (P < 0.001). Gamma camera imaging methods for determination of hepatic uptake demonstrated significant (P < 0.05) and reversible impairment of 99mTc‐labeled albumin uptake by liposomes. The most promising of these techniques utilizes deconvolutional analysis off liver region of interest time–activity curves to correct for continuously changing blood concentrations of tracer and for intracellular tracer processing and catabolism. Measurements of reticuloendothelial system phagocytic activity should include methods that take into account the observed discrepancies between blood clearance determinations and reticuloendothelial cell uptake.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/141016/1/jlb0060.pd