What are the purported effects on tacrolimus? Has there already been a trial or test? Once a transplant patient's biopsy and lab numbers clearly show him heading down the road to fibrosis and cirrohsis, would it make sense to push for trying the new drugs at least the approved ones for non-transplant such as teleprevir and bocepavir? Otherwise the patient is looking at another transplant which would seem to be quite a negative option.
my father is a post liver transplant patient. almost an year has pased .Now along with all he has got renal impairment problem. His cretanine is almost 1.4 or around. My question is that should he continue his TACROLIMUS tablets or should switch to some other tablets which are safe for kidneys?
Secondly , in my sorrounding there is an opinion that lowering the TACROLIMUS dose also let the liver enzymes to increase?
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please can u tell how your fathers creatinine level came down,My dad is also a renal transplant patient but since last two days his creatinine level had shot up to 3.9.The docs have already started dialysis for this reason but the kidney is functioning normally.
please let me know more about ur dads diet and control he is following,that will be a great help.
AS I HAVE SUFFERED BREATHLESSNESS AND WALKING PROBLEMS,I HAVE BEEN TAKEN OFF TACROLIMUS AND PUT ON NEORAL-YET THERE IS NO IMPROVEMENT IN MY CONDITION.IS THERE ANY OTHER ANTI REJECTION DRUG THAT YOU WOULD RECOMMEND (I HAVE HAD A LIVER TRANSPLANT RECENTLY)? IN YOUR EXPERIENCE,CAN MY SITUATION BE IMPROVED?THANKS.
I lost my insurance after 13 years post-transplant.
We concluded that rituximab therapy is effective in cryoglobulin-related renal dysfunction in renal transplant patients but, due to chronic immunosuppression, this may be achieved at the expense of infectious complications.
AD Multiorgan Transplant Unit, University Hospital, CHU Rangueil, 1 avenue Jean Poulhes, TSA 50032, 31059 Toulouse cedex 9, France.
Hey guys I am 10 yrs post liver transplant. Does anyone if viagra is safe. I have 2 docs saying 2 diff things.
What/how much are you taking Immunosuppressants and tacrolimus level ? Might be a slight rejection ? I recommand to talking to the transplant team.
it could've also been acute autoimmune hepatitis. do you know what specifically the latest liver biopsy showed?
of medications especially being recently (less than 1 year) post transplant? Is this safe? I do however need to have the high blood pressure addressed. Advice/help. Thank you in advance.
i had a liver transplant roughly 6 years ago. and 2 days ago i drank a 1 oz shot of jagermeister. will this affect my new liver? im never going to drink any more alcohol ever again in my life. im terribly worried right now. im currently taking tacrolimus medication aswell. should i be worried? i feel perfectly fine though. i dont have any symptoms. if i was to take a blood test in 4 days, will my sgpt and sgot level go high? please help. thank you.
I was initially taking Tacrolimus and then I was switched to Sirolimus. I cannot remember why my immunosuppressive was changed but Sirolimus was pretty new then and maybe my surgeon wanted to try it and see how I did. I wasn't very fond of it as I recall. It came in small packets and was an oily solution. It's been a while but I do remember that. I probably mentioned this to my surgeon and that could be the reason that he switched me back.
My dad has had a liver transplant 2 years ago, he is on immunosuppressents, namely, Tacrolimus. He would like to know if smoking marijuana would be harmful.
compared to a 70-fold increase for tacrolimus), cyclosporine seems to be an attractive choice for HCV-infected transplant recipients who are planning to use a protease inhibitor.
Any changes to a patient’s immunosuppression regimen should be made carefully to avoid rejection, especially in a patient who is on stable immunosuppression. My personal bias is to continue the current immunosuppression at a lower dose and follow the drug levels.
I am taking Tacrolimus 3mg, Myfortic 360mg, twice a day. My Creatine is 1.25 and BUN is 29. I am also interested in your opinion.
i had a liver transplant roughly 6 years ago. and 2 days ago i drank a 1 oz shot of jagermeister. will this affect my new liver? im never going to drink any more alcohol ever again in my life. im terribly worried right now. im currently taking tacrolimus medication aswell. should i be worried? i feel perfectly fine though. i dont have any symptoms.
Yes, post transplant patients are being treated with the new drugs at least at my transplant center. (U.C. at San Francisco) The patients have just started treatment so there is no data regarding results. Figure at least a year or so for the data to be available. I haven't heard of other centers doing the same but I'm sure some of the other top liver transplant programs are also trying the new treatments at least on a few well selected patients.
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