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Case Reports
. 1996 Jun;28(3):1229-34.

Daily serum interleukin-6 monitoring in multiple organ transplantation with or without liver allografts

Y Kita  1 , Y Iwaki, K Noguchi, B P Griffith, A G Tzakis, S Todo, J J Fung, T E Starzl
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Daily serum interleukin-6 monitoring in multiple organ transplantation with or without liver allografts

Y Kita et al. Transplant Proc. 1996 Jun.
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Fig 1
Fig 1
A 52-year-old woman with alcoholic cirrhosis underwent liver transplantation. She had many relapsing rejection episodes.
Fig 2
Fig 2
Serum IL-6 monitoring in lung transplant recipients. Upper: Double-lung transplant recipient with no complications. Middle: Single-lung transplant recipient with one rejection episode. Rejection was confirmed by bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). An IL-6 spike was observed 1 day before BAL. Lower: Double-lung transplant recipient with bacterial infection in both lung allografts. IL-6 levels were consistently high.
Fig 3
Fig 3
A 31-year-old man with gunshot injury to the superior mesenteric artery underwent small bowel transplantation. The serum IL-6 level was high POD 1 to 2 but decreased afterward, and stayed within the normal range regardless of biopsy-proven acute cellular rejection (ACR) episodes.
Fig 4
Fig 4
A 4-year-old boy with gastroschisis underwent combined liver and small bowel transplant. One gram of methylprednisolone was administered for clinically suspected liver allograft rejection.
Fig 5
Fig 5
A 26-year-old woman with superior mesenteric artery thrombosis underwent combined liver and small bowel transplant. The first and second administration of methylprednisolone (1 g) were for liver allograft rejection. The third was for small bowel allograft rejection.
Fig 6
Fig 6
A 44-year-old man with primary sclerosing cholangitis and polycystic kidney underwent combined liver and kidney transplantation. The posttransplant course was uneventful.
Fig 7
Fig 7
A 40-year-old man with cryptogenic cirrhosis and chronic renal failure underwent combined liver and kidney transplantation. He experienced bacterial and fungal infection after POD 10.
Fig 8
Fig 8
A 29-year-old man with cryptogenic cirrhosis and chronic renal failure underwent combined kidney and liver transplantation. He experienced relapsing rejection of the kidney allograft and subsequently underwent nephrectomy and liver retransplantation.
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