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Ricky Stenhouse rallied from two laps down to win Saturday's Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway and tighten the battle for the series championship. During a green-white-checkered-flag finish that took the race six laps beyond its scheduled distance of 200 laps, Stenhouse surged to the front in the final turn after Kyle Busch ran out of fuel. Austin Dillon ran second, .288 seconds behind Stenhouse. Pole-sitter Joey Logano finished third, followed by Elliott Sadler and Cole Whitt, respectively. In winning for the sixth time this season and the eighth time in his career, Stenhouse cut Sadler's series lead from 13 points to six with three races left in the season. To get to Victory Lane, Stenhouse had to survive a collision with Logano's No. 18 Toyota — an incident team owner Jack Roush said was Stenhouse's fault — just past the halfway point (watch). "The guys did an awesome job getting the car back together, and we never gave up," Stenhouse said. "Mike [Kelley, crew chief] made great calls and adjustments to fix how the car drove with the damage, and it was still one of the fastest cars out there. "I didn't see the win coming like this, but we will take it." Saturday's event was the first NASCAR race on a track that was newly repaved and reconfigured with graduated banking, and there were some growing pains. The race produced a record 12 cautions for a total of 50 laps. The championship battle took an ominous turn for Stenhouse, the defending series champion, just after the midpoint of the race. Stenhouse and Logano collided off Turn 2, damaging both cars, but both were able to continue. Stenhouse was following Logano closely just before the contact. "We had a lot of debris on the grille, and we were 300 [degrees] on water and oil, and I thought we would have to pit to come get that off before we blew up," Stenhouse said. "I was trying to get behind him to get the debris off and he checked up at the last second and I turned and just drove right into the side of him. There wasn't much he could do about it, and I thought it ruined our day, but we were able to bounce back from it." Stenhouse lost two laps during a green-flag pit stop but got them back on a wave-around before a Lap 142 restart and a free pass as the highest-scored lapped car under the 10th caution of the afternoon. Back on the lead lap for a restart on Lap 167, Stenhouse had charged to 13th by the time Mike Bliss' slide through the tri-oval caused the track-record-tying 11th caution. Stenhouse was two spots behind Sadler in fifth when first-time Nationwide starter Hal Martin and Scott Lagasse Jr. wrecked off Turn 2 on Lap 198. Fearing they would run out of fuel in overtime, Sadler and Dillon both pitted for a splash of fuel under the 12th caution. Stenhouse restarted fourth and took the checkered flag when Busch ran out of fuel on the final lap. So ended another disappointing day for Busch, still trying to win for the first time behind the wheel of the No. 54 Toyota he owns. "That's our year, man — nothing else to it than that," said Busch, who rolled across the finish line in sixth place. "What a frustrating defeat." The race marked the first appearance for a Pakastani driver in a NASCAR event. Nur Ali finished 33rd in his NASCAR debut after slamming the Turn 3 wall on Lap 69. Derek White, who wrecked in Turn 4 on Lap 138 to cause the ninth yellow, was transported to a local hospital for further evaluation. Danica Patrick (10th) posted her third top-10 finish of the season, but she'll remember this race for a spectacular three-wide pass of Sadler and Ryan Blaney for the sixth spot on Lap 171. With Dillon's second-place finish, Chevrolet clinched the manufacturers' championship for the 15th time in series history. Race results: 1. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 2. Austin Dillon (R) 3. Joey Logano 4. Elliott Sadler 5. Cole Whitt (R) 6. Kyle Busch 7. Justin Allgaier 8. Michael Annett 9. Sam Hornish Jr. 10. Danica Patrick 11. Ryan Blaney 12. Joe Nemecheck 13. Mike Bliss 14. Danny Efland 15. Eric McClure 16. Paul Menard 17. Erik Darnell 18. Kenny Wallace 19. Joey Gase (R) 20. Jason Bowles (R) Nationwide standings: 1. Elliott Sadler 2. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., -6 3. Austin Dillon (R), -26 4. Sam Hornish Jr., -98 5. Michael Annett, -150 6. Justin Allgaier, -162 7. Cole Whitt (R), -223 8. Mike Bliss, -316 9. Brian Scott, -378 10. Danica Patrick, -394 NASCAR Wire Service, photo courtesy of NASCARmedia.com The post Ricky Stenhouse overcomes accident to win Nationwide race at Kansas Speedway appeared first on Race Review Online.
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Secret London is a Facebook group started by 21-year-old Bristol University graduate, Tiffany Philippou, on 19 January 2010 in response to a Saatchi & Saatchi competition.[1] The group grew rapidly (180,000 members as of 8 February 2010[2]) and is composed mostly of Londoners who use the site to share suggestions and photos of London. After the group's early success, the founder announced her intention to launch a website of the same name by crowdsourcing the design and development.[3] The website was launched on 16 February 2010.[4][5][6][7]
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Following the initial success of Secret London, a number of other secret groups were independently started around the world, some of which already have over 100,000 users. As of 19 February 2010, the list of other groups includes: Secret Frankfurt, Secret Jaffa,[8] Secret Paris, Secret New York, Secret Tokyo, Secret Los Angeles, Secret Exeter, Secret Boston, Secret Norwich, Secret Singapore, Secret Brighton, Secret Minneapolis, Secret Sydney, Secret Canberra, Secret Brisbane, Secret Wellington, Secret Christchurch, Secret Madeira, Secret Funchal, Secret Bristol and Secret Cardiff.
Some commentators[9][10][11][12][13] have questioned whether it possible to share secrets without compromising them, and whether sharing tips publicly will lead to over-exposure of the businesses who are recommended.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Argentina looked like two-time champions and Greece finally found a way to score — and win — at the World Cup. As for France, well, it can't get much worse.
Argentina again displayed the kind of attacking soccer that wins titles, and on Thursday the Albiceleste got a hat trick from Gonzalo Higuain in a 4-1 victory over South Korea at Soccer City.
"We deserved this triumph because this was the type of outcome we'd hinted at achieving against Nigeria," Argentina coach Diego Maradona said, referring to his team's opening 1-0 win. "And this time it happened."
It also put the Argentines in prime position to advance from Group B, needing only a draw against Greece to do so.
The Greeks scored their first goals and earned their first victory in a World Cup. After four defeats, three in 1994, they defeated 10-man Nigeria 2-1 to stay alive in their group. Nigeria is virtually eliminated after two losses.
Mexico got two second-half scores from substitutes to beat France 2-0 in Group A. The French, losing finalists to Italy four years ago, are in desperate straits, while the Mexicans need only a draw with Uruguay to advance.
Higuain scored the final three goals for Argentina after it got an own goal by Park Chu-young.
"I knew I was getting chances, but I needed to convert them," Higuain said. "Luckily, those that didn't go in against Nigeria went in today.
"It was a nice challenge to score goals. It's what a striker lives for."
Argentina, which also dominated play against Nigeria, took the lead in the 17th minute when Park deflected a shot from Lionel Messi past his own goalkeeper.
Higuain then scored his first goal in the 33rd with a header, and added the others late in the second half after Lee Chung-yong cut the lead to 2-1 by taking advantage of a defensive mistake.
"I have to congratulate the players ... everything they did worked out well," Maradona said. "I am very happy."
As are the Greeks.
Although the Nigerians started well in Bloemfontein and took the lead in the 16th minute when Kalu Uche curled in a free kick, the game soon turned.
In the 33rd minute, Nigeria midfielder Sani Kaita was shown a straight red card for kicking Vassilis Torosidis.
"Yeah, of course it's of big importance," Nigeria coach Lars Lagerback said of the ejection. "Everybody who knows anything about football knows if you're playing with 10 men on this level it's much more difficult to win a game."
Dimitris Salpingidis equalized in the 44th with a deflected shot, and Torosidis scored the winning goal in the 71st after a mistake from Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.
"We badly wanted this, because we'd never even scored a goal in the World Cup before," Salpingidis said. "I can't say whether we'll make it out the group. But I can say that we'll leave with our heads held high."
France most likely won't. It again produced little, and this time the team couldn't keep its opponent from scoring in Polokwane.
Javier Hernandez received a pass from Rafael Marquez and went around goalkeeper Hugo Lloris to give Mexico the lead in the 64th. Cuauhtemoc Blanco made it 2-0 by converting a penalty in the 79th.
Hernandez joined his grandfather as scorers at a World Cup. Tomas Balcazar scored for Mexico against France in the 1954 World Cup, although France won that match.
"I remembered my grandfather in the locker room," he said. "I haven't spoken to my family yet. They're my main motivation."
"Thank God I could score. More importantly, we could win against a team we hadn't been able to beat in a long time."
Both Mexico and Uruguay have four points in Group A and meet each other Tuesday in Rustenburg. France and South Africa, both with one point, can still advance. They play Tuesday in Bloemfontein.
Off the field, there were more demonstrations at World Cup venues. About 200 stewards in Cape Town were dispersed with rubber bullets and a stun grenade in a labor dispute linked to low pay for World Cup duties.
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Figure. Patient survival and failure-free survival of kidney and pancreas allografts after transplant.
Tai DS, Hong J, Busuttil RW, Lipshutz GS. Low Rates of Short- and Long-term Graft Loss After Kidney-Pancreas Transplant From a Single Center. JAMA Surg. 2013;148(4):368-373. doi:10.1001/2013.jamasurg.261
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Author Affiliations: Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles.
Importance Since the 1980s, pancreas transplant has become the most effective treatment strategy to restore euglycemia in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus. However, technical complications and BK virus nephropathy continue to be important causes of early and late graft loss. These and other complications lead to cited 1- and 3-year graft survival rates of 74% and 67% (pancreas) and 81% and 73% (kidney).
Objective To examine our center's outcomes with pancreas-kidney transplant and early BK virus screening and treatment.
Design Prospective study from August 2004 to January 2012.
Setting University medical center.
Participants Sixty-five patients with type 1 diabetes who underwent simultaneous kidney and pancreas, pancreas after kidney, or pancreas transplant alone at a single center.
Intervention Pancreas transplant.
Main Outcome Measures Pancreas and kidney survival; patient survival; and kidney loss due to BK virus nephropathy.
Results Patient survival at 1, 3, and 5 years was 100%, 98.4%, and 98.4%, respectively. Of 2 early pancreatic allograft losses, 1 was due to thrombosis (1.6%). One- and 5-year pancreas graft survival rates were 95.4% and 92.3%; losses after more than 1 year were due to rejection. Kidney survival rates were 100% and 95.2% at 1 and 5 years; losses were due to nephropathy and noncompliance, with 1 death with function. BK virus incidence was 29.2%, with no graft losses due to BK infection.
Conclusions and Relevance While pancreas transplant can be complicated by early graft loss, our results suggest that excellent outcomes at 5 years can be achieved. Posttransplant BK virus screening and treatment are essential tools to long-term success.
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease with both profound individual and socioeconomic burden. In 2007, the US health care costs attributed to diabetes exceeded $174 billion, an estimate expected to escalate with the increased longevity and growing prevalence in elderly and pediatric obese populations, respectively.1,2 More importantly, the deleterious effects of diabetes on individual health lead to an incalculable decline in quality of life via progressive multisystem complications. For patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), the benefits of intensive blood glucose control in delaying diabetic nephropathy, retinopathy, and neuropathy have been well established since the seminal Diabetes Control and Complications Trial.3 Yet despite advances in the pharmacologic management of T1DM, safe and physiologic exogenous insulin delivery remains difficult to achieve for many patients.
Pancreas transplant is a highly effective treatment strategy to restore long-term euglycemia and stabilize the multiorgan derangements caused by T1DM.4 The significantly improved quality of life, freedom from exogenous insulin, relief of life-threatening hypoglycemic episodes, and potential survival benefit have furthered transplant as an acceptable therapeutic option over the past 2 decades, albeit at the expense of lifelong immunosuppression.5 Accordingly, pancreas transplants are typically performed in patients with T1DM with end-stage renal disease requiring kidney transplant, thus obligating the use of immunosuppression. The timing of pancreas transplant is either simultaneous with kidney transplant (SPK), after kidney transplant (PAK), or performed alone (PTA), with operative decision making dependent on patient risk factors, kidney function, and organ donor availability.
In 1966, William Kelly performed the first simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant at the University of Minnesota.6 Although technical refinement has improved the rate of surgical complications and graft failure since the 1980s, pancreas transplant is still associated with significantly higher rates of perioperative morbidity (estimated to be as high as 10%-15%) than other solid organ transplants.5,7 Early postoperative complications recognized to confer increased risk of graft loss include graft thrombosis, hemorrhage, pancreatitis, and enteric intestinal leak. In addition, recipient factors such as tobacco use, obesity, and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease compound the overall risk.
Importantly, polyomavirus-associated nephropathy, also known as BK virus nephropathy (BKVN), is well recognized as an important cause of kidney allograft dysfunction and loss in solitary renal transplant and kidney-pancreas transplant recipients (although it has not been reported to cause pancreas allograft dysfunction).8- 11 Once BK virus is diagnosed, kidney graft loss has been reported to be as high as 45% at 6 months.12,13 In a prior study by Lipshutz et al,14 the rate of BKVN in SPK patients at a single center was found to be 6.6%. A similar report in the literature determined their institutional rate at 7.5%.12,15 With no reliably effective antiviral agents available, the treatment of BK virus infection and nephropathy remains poorly defined.16 Currently, the primary mode of intervention is reduction of maintenance immunosuppression. However, both protocols and success rates remain heterogeneous and require further study in SPK patients.16- 19
The purpose of the present study was to (1) report our short- and long-term results of allograft and patient survival of kidney-pancreas allograft recipients; 2) define the causes for allograft loss, both short and long term; and 3) report the incidence of BK virus infection in kidney-pancreas transplant recipients and prospectively determine the influence of immunosuppression withdrawal on the survival of both the kidney and pancreas allografts.
This study was approved by the Committee for Human Research at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (institutional review board 11-003148). All pancreas transplant operations (SPK, PAK, and PTA) and patients at UCLA from August 2004 to January 2012 were followed up to collect recipient, transplant, and posttransplant data.
All patients from August 2004 to January 2012 were evaluated by a UCLA transplant cardiologist and underwent preoperative cardiac stress testing. Further testing was performed for higher-risk candidates including those older than 45 years with 25 years of insulin dependence and smoking or cardiac history. After activation on the transplant list, pretransplant patients underwent repeated cardiac stress testing yearly until transplant.
Donor pancreata and kidneys were procured from young deceased donors without evidence of pancreatic or renal dysfunction. Donor selection, operative technique, and postoperative management were performed as previously described by Schnickel et al.20
After discharge, patients were followed up closely as outpatients. Urine and blood screening were performed for BK virus routinely posttransplant and if detected, monthly laboratory evaluation was performed until resolution of viremia/viruria. Routine screening was also performed for cytomegalovirus and urinary tract infections.
Immunosuppression consisted of induction with antithymocyte globulin and methylprednisolone and maintenance with tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil, and prednisone.20 Tacrolimus, a calcineurin inhibitor, was initiated on postoperative day 2 unless there was evidence of delayed kidney allograft function. Tacrolimus levels of 12 to 14 ng/mL were maintained for the first 6 months, then 10 ng/mL from months 7 to 12, and 7 to 9 ng/mL thereafter. In patients where BK viremia/viruria was detected, levels as low as 5 ng/mL were tolerated. Mycophenolate mofetil was started on postoperative day 6 at 500 mg twice a day and increased to 750 mg twice a day on the subsequent day. After completion of thymoglobulin induction, patients began prednisone tapering from 20 to 5 mg daily over the first month. For patients exhibiting mild hyperglycemia, tacrolimus was changed to cyclosporine (n = 3), with levels of 200 to 300 ng/mL for the first year and 100 to 200 ng/mL thereafter.
Renal and pancreas allograft function were monitored by levels of creatinine and blood glucose and amylase and lipase, respectively. Renal allograft biopsy was performed if creatinine was elevated 20% or more above baseline and pancreas biopsy was performed for unexplained amylase or lipase elevations and/or hyperglycemia. All rejection episodes were diagnosed by biopsy and treated with thymoglobulin and steroid taper. Patients who had an episode of rejection were never completely weaned from prednisone.
Screening for BK virus in urine and blood was performed by quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay. A lower limit of detection in urine was less than 5 copies/mL and blood was 625 copies/mL with a linear range of 625 to 6.25 × 109 copies/mL. IF BK virus was detected, mycophenolate mofetil was withdrawn typically over 3 months with close surveillance of serum creatinine, amylase, and lipase levels.
Multivariate logistic regression analysis to assess for independent predictors of BK virus was performed using SPSS version 19 (IBM SPSS).
Routine infection prophylaxis was as follows: (1) Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) prophylaxis: combined trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole (Septra double strength) 4 times a day for 3 months (changed programwide to 12 months in 2010 after PCP outbreak); (2) fungal prophylaxis: fluconazole, 400 mg daily for 2 months; and (3) cytomegalovirus prophylaxis: valganciclovir hydrochloride, 900 mg daily for 3 to 6 months depending on risk profile.20 Selection of thrombosis prophylaxis was dependent on whether the transplant was an SPK, PAK, or PTA, as previously described.20
From August 2004 to January 2012, 65 patients with T1DM underwent pancreas transplant (50.7% female; mean [SD] age, 42.8 [7.5] years; mean [SD] body mass index, 26.0 [3.5] [calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared]) and were prospectively followed up after undergoing SPK (n = 45), PAK (n = 19), or PTA (n = 1) transplant (Table).
Mean (SD) follow-up was 1454 (728) days. Thirty-day and 1-year patient survival rates were 100%. Three-year, 5-year, and 7-year patient survival was 98.5% (Figure). In this series of 65 patients, there was only 1 death. The cause is unknown because the patient was lost to follow-up 2 years after PAK. Two patients developed severe PCP necessitating prolonged hospitalizations. One patient (male, Hispanic, developed PCP 2 years and 8 months after SPK) recovered and has maintained normal pancreatic and kidney allograft function. A second patient (male, African American, developed PCP 5 years after SPK) was treated with intravenous pentamidine isethionate because of a national shortage of intravenous trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole at the time. Because of the toxicity of pentamidine to islets,21- 23 the patient has continued to require long-acting insulin. Both patients are alive and active adults at this time.
Overall kidney allograft survival was 96.9% (2 losses) with a third censored for death with function. One-, 3-, and 5-year kidney allograft survival rates were 100% and 7-year survival was 98.5% (Figure). Both kidneys were lost in PAK recipients. One kidney (and pancreas) allograft lost function 4 years and 9 months after PAK (5 years and 8 months after kidney transplant) because of noncompliance with medications and development of cellular and humoral rejection. The second kidney was lost because of calcineurin inhibitor toxicity and chronic allograft nephropathy 5 years and 6 months after PAK (9 years after kidney transplant).
BK viruria was diagnosed in 29.2% (n = 19) of recipients. Three of these patients were the recipient of a PAK and 16 were recipients of an SPK; the single PTA recipient has not demonstrated BK viruria. BK viruria was diagnosed a mean (SD) 485 (378) days (range, 90-1465 days) after receiving a pancreas transplant. BK viremia was detected in 12.3% (n = 8) of recipients, all of whom had been previously diagnosed with BK viruria. One of these patients was a PAK recipient and 7 were recipients of an SPK. BK viremia was diagnosed a mean (SD) 482 (318) days (range, 86-947 days) after receiving a pancreas transplant. Neither of the patients who lost kidneys in this series (n = 2) demonstrated BK viremia or BK viruria.
Patients with BK were treated by weaning mycophenolate mofetil to 250 mg orally twice a day followed by discontinuation. No patients developed rejection during the process or subsequently. Five of the 8 patients (62.5%) had resolution of BK viremia and 8 of the 19 patients (40%) had resolution of BK viruria. All patients with persistent BK viremia/viruria have had a progressive decline in viral titer since withdrawal of mycophenolate mofetil. Lowering the tacrolimus level in these patients has led to further declines in viral load.
A multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to assess for independent predictors of BK virus. Variables included recipient age, ethnicity, and sex; donor sex, blood type, and race; type of transplant (SPK vs PAK vs PTA); and year of transplant. There were no variables that independently predicted BK virus in this regression analysis. Known risk factors (ie, ureteral stent and diabetes mellitus) were excluded because all patients had a history of diabetes mellitus and had a stent at the time of transplant.24,25
Overall pancreas allograft survival was 92.3% (5 losses). All losses occurred in PAK recipients. Thirty-day and 1-year allograft survival rates were 96.9% and 95.4%, respectively, while 3-year survival was 93.8% (Figure). Five- and 7-year pancreas allograft survival rates were 92.3%. One graft was lost in the first week posttransplant because of allograft thrombosis. Notably, no grafts were lost from duodenal leaks or primary nonfunction. Furthermore, no pancreatic allograft rejection developed during selected withdrawal of immunosuppression for BK viruria/viremia.
Over the past 50 years, pancreas transplant has evolved from an experimental procedure to a highly successful therapeutic option for patients with T1DM with end-stage renal disease. Improved surgical technique and more effective immunosuppression have been key to the improved rates of graft survival and mortality. However, unlike with other solid organ transplants, pancreas transplant continues to experience significant technical complications, with limited evidence-based medicine to help guide definitive technique.26 Specifically, management of exocrine and endocrine drainage is a challenge unique to pancreas transplant. Devastating complications from early methods of exocrine drainage (pancreatic duct ligation, injections with polymers) prompted exploration of different approaches, most notably donor duodenum to bladder drainage initiated in the 1980s. Today, the most popular method involves enteric drainage with donor duodenum to jejunum, although other methods such as duodenum to ileum, gastric antrum, or Roux-en-Y are still practiced.5,27 Portal vs systemic endocrine drainage of insulin has also been a subject of controversy. Early evidence suggested that physiologic portal venous drainage and the preservation of liver first pass effect may improve graft survival and avoid potential cardiovascular complications from systemic insulin release.26,28 Recent data, however, suggest there may be little difference in outcomes between either group.29
These challenges inherent to pancreas transplant have portended the technical complications that remain problematic for graft survival in the first year. Between 1994 and 2003, the University of Minnesota reported their technical pancreatic graft loss at 13.1% in a series of more than 900 transplants.15 Among the causes were graft thrombosis, pancreatitis, leak, and bleeding. Our study is one of the few to report both short- and long-term outcomes and causes of allograft loss. From 2004 to 2012, our patient survival rates at 1, 3, and 5 years were 100%, 98.4%, and 98.4%, respectively. To date, our kidney allograft survival is 97% (2 losses) and pancreas allograft survival is 92.3% (5 losses). Only 1 pancreas graft was lost in the immediate perioperative period from thrombosis; 2 were lost from infection and 2 from noncompliance. No grafts were lost from leak or primary nonfunction. From 2010, the United Network for Organ Sharing reports 1-, 3-, and 5-year patient survival rates of 94.7%, 90.7%, and 86.5%, respectively. Kidney and pancreas graft survival rates at 1, 3, and 5 years were 92.2%, 84.7%, and 77.7% and 84.5%, 77.9%, and 71.3%, respectively.30
In this series, we have shown that excellent short- and long-term results can be produced despite being a relatively low-volume center. We believe this is due to a single experienced surgeon performing all cases and careful postoperative monitoring. Although an inverse association between hospital procedure volume and postoperative patient outcome has been demonstrated for some adult and pediatric solid organ transplant procedures, this has not been studied for pancreas transplant.21- 23 Specifically, our study (average of 9-10 pancreas transplants per year) does not demonstrate such a volume effect. Notably, all lost pancreas allografts occurred in PAK recipients, which is mirrored by national data, reflecting that pancreatic graft function is considerably shorter in PAK than SPK recipients.4 Despite these risks, we believe PAK in a selected population can still confer benefit from glycemic control.
BK virus nephropathy has been well studied in the single-kidney transplant population but there remains a paucity of data on the effects of BKVN and immunosuppression reduction in SPK and PAK recipients. It is known that asymptomatic BK viruria normally precedes viremia and subsequent active nephropathy. Detection of the BK virus prior to the development of BKVN presents an opportunity for preemptive treatment with early immunosuppression reduction. To our knowledge, this is the first prospective study on BK viruria/viremia screening and early immunosuppression reduction in SPK and PAK recipients, with outcomes measured by long-term graft survival and resolution of BK viruria/viremia. Several retrospective case series have shown institutional rates of BKVN in SPK patients to range from 2.9% to 6.2%, with subsequent kidney allograft loss between 0% and 89%.31 The retrospective review by Lipshutz et al14 of 146 SPK recipients from 1996 to 2002 identified a BKVN incidence of 6.6%, more than half of whom subsequently had kidney allograft loss. Notably, no pancreas grafts were reported to be lost from BKVN in any of these case series.
In 2004, we established a program for routine BK virus screening and early initiation of mycophenolate mofetil withdrawal in all SPK and PAK recipients. Our results have shown a 0% incidence of BKVN and, subsequently, no kidney losses from BKVN. Furthermore, 62.5% and 40% of recipients who developed BK viremia and viruria, respectively, experienced resolution after treatment. These findings suggest that routine screening and early treatment of BK virus in SPK and PAK recipients can be a powerful tool to help prevent the potential development of BKVN and its devastating sequelae including kidney graft dysfunction, loss, or ureteral strictures.
Interestingly, our results showed a fairly high incidence of BK virus detection; 29.2% of patients were found to have viruria. Given that 80% to 90% of the population was seropositive for polyomavirus, this could represent the natural history of BK virus reactivation in the immunosuppressed population. Furthermore, while quantitative polymerase chain reaction is largely the tool used to detect BK viral DNA, other methods such as urine cytology and urine VP1 messenger RNA have also been used, which could attribute to variance in detected cases among institutions.32 A multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed and there were no independent risk factors that predicted for BK virus in our series. Also unexplained is the 5 times higher rate of BK virus detected in SPK vs PAK recipients. These results appear paradoxical in that PAK recipients at our institution receive a second course of antithymocyte induction and have higher levels of tacrolimus maintained long term. The reason for a predominance of these cases in SPK compared with PAK recipients remains unclear.
There are limitations to this study including its involvement with only a single center. Furthermore, the exclusion of recipients older than 55 years potentially avoids a subpopulation of patients with comorbid conditions that may lead to worse overall outcomes. Several possible explanations also exist for our high patient and graft survival. First, the majority of donors were young with low body mass index. Second, we meticulously perform the back table preparation to avoid bleeding during reperfusion and we consistently perform a 2-layered hand-sewn intestinal anastomosis, which to date has not led to an anastomotic leak. Third, all planned recipients are seen by our team cardiologist pretransplant and undergo necessary angiography prior to transplant. To date, there have been no postoperative myocardial infarctions in our recipient population. Finally, all recipients are followed up lifelong by 1 transplant surgeon, with careful BK surveillance and immunosuppression adjustment. We credit this close outpatient follow-up to achievement of the long-term outcomes obtained and prevention of kidney allograft loss by BKVN.
Our results show that pancreas transplant is a highly effective option for patients with T1DM with end-stage renal disease and can be performed safely with excellent outcomes. Screening for BK virus with early treatment in kidney-pancreas transplant recipients are important tools to help prevent BKVN and subsequent kidney graft loss and dysfunction. Future multicenter prospective trials will be valuable to determine the durability of these measures.
Correspondence: Gerald S. Lipshutz, MD, MS, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 77-120 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7054 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Accepted for Publication: August 8, 2012.
Author Contributions:Study concept and design: Tai, Hong, Busuttil, and Lipshutz. Acquisition of data: Lipshutz. Analysis and interpretation of data: Tai, Busuttil, and Lipshutz. Drafting of the manuscript: Tai, Hong, and Lipshutz. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Tai, Busuttil, and Lipshutz. Statistical analysis: Lipshutz. Obtained funding: Lipshutz. Administrative, technical, and material support: Tai, Hong, Busuttil, and Lipshutz. Study supervision: Busuttil and Lipshutz.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.
Previous Presentation: This article was a podium presentation at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association; February 19, 2012; Napa Valley, California.


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DeathAngelS300 18-21, F 1 Response 1 Jan 30, 2016
I found out I had diabetes in October 2014.Now, I have to take medicine everyday and I struggle with remembering! I don't have to take as much as most and thank goodness I don't need insulin! My heart goes out to all who have to use needles.... I'm terrified of them!
paris071982 31-35, F 1 Response 1 Jan 26, 2016
I don't think anyone trusts me anymorebecause all've these meds are affecting me in every way.
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I have rheumatoid arthritis.Sucks to be me
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Ever heard of Anit-Depressantsor Anti-Anxiety? Taking those. They help a little.
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I take meds for bipolar disorderand aadd and am an addict on top to meth and if I don't take my meds and just do meth WOW am I ****** up can't get along with anyone and I start picking fights...... Stupidity
VYVANSE...please tell meif you take it and your thoughts on how it works. its for ADHD.
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Right at Your Door is coming to a theater near you.
The Sundance Film Festival thriller from director Chris Gorak, about the dire decisions otherwise good people make when overwhelmed by fear and paranoia during a terrorist attack, has been picked up for release by Lionsgate Films.
The company doesn�t have a debut date yet, acquisitions chief Peter Block said Friday, and wouldn�t confirm the sale price, reportedly around $2 million.
Lionsgate had success with the grim Sundance shark-attack drama Open Water in 2004, and it�s also distributing last year�s Sundance buzz film, the thriller Hard Candy, on April 14.
Right at Your Door takes place on a morning in Los Angeles, when word spreads that dirty bombs have detonated and a toxic cloud is sweeping the metro area. As millions flee, freeways jam, phone contact breaks down, and one husband and wife (Rory Cochrane and Mary McCormack) must find each other, get inside their home, or get out, as neighbor turns against neighbor in violent desperation.
�The story unravels through their eyes. The husband has the fate of his wife in his hands, and the wife has the fate of the husband in her hands,� says Gorak, a first-time feature director who has previously worked as an art director on Fight Club and Minority Report.
Chronicling only that couple and the people weaving in and out of their lives helped keep the budget low, he said, but also created suspense because that tight focus meant the viewer is never sure if what the characters know is really true.
�Those questions come in pieces and fragments through the story just like any situation where we�re trying to get the truth about an unraveling event on the news,� Gorak says, pointing out there was a lot of misinformation on the morning of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
�I really wanted to bundle up that energy that�s around us today and revive the discussion about where we�re at as a society. From fear to safety, what does it mean today?� Gorak adds. �People don�t want to believe it but it can happen at any time.� —A.B.
Winona says goodbye
Winona Ryder proved what a friend can be Wednesday night after the premiere of The Darwin Awards, which features Chris Penn, found dead Tuesday in his Santa Monica apartment.
Asked what it was like to work with him and be his friend, Winona stepped forward, her voice on the verge of breaking.
"I was lucky enough to know him for 19 years — since I was … Wait, how many years is that?" the 34-year-old actress stammered. "I think in this day and age of leading men getting $20 million per picture, it's getting tougher and tougher for supporting actors to make it. … I do notice in studio movies they look a bit cheap because all the money is going to the Big Movie Star. I talked to Chris about it a lot. He was usually cynical, but he wasn't about that. He said, 'I'm just so grateful for the work.' "
"He was hilarious and amazing," she said, her voice tightening. "He was not just Sean's little brother. He was Chris Penn."
Afterward, the cast signed a snowboard emblazoned with The Darwin Awards logo with messages about Penn. They planned to auction it on eBay and donate the proceeds to his family.
Ryder wrote: "Chris Penn will rock forever and ever." —H.J.
A cheapie with bite
A few thousand dollars doesn't buy much, but it can get you some eternal life.
Amateur filmmaker Roger Ingraham, 22, got his vampire thriller Moonshine into Sundance after spending over two years and $9,200 on the project, which premiered at midnight Wednesday.
He got volunteer help from friends, relatives and others in his hometown of Stafford Springs, Conn. "We got a lot for zero dollars – the car accidents in the film were done for free (by friends). All actors, and the entire crew, they worked for free. The town, all the extras came from there, even the police who drove the cop cars and lent their uniforms and yellow tape," Ingraham says.
The story is about a young man who feels his life slipping away as he toils at a dead-end job and spends off-hours caring for his ailing mother and father. When a shadowy figure begins to prey on him, he discovers new powers that are both frightening and desirable.
"I tried to step away from the Count Dracula versions and all the vampire films where they are wearing sunglasses and spiky hairdos and are shooting machine guns with some sort of garlic-exploding bullets," Ingraham says, a reference to movies like Blade and Underworld.
"I was going for a much more realistic gritty version of the vampire film." —A.B.
Neil Young, the outtakes
Neil Young crafted his latest album, Prairie Wind, while facing potentially life-changing — or life-ending — surgery to correct a brain aneurysm. After his recovery, he collaborated with filmmaker Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs, Stop Making Sense) on a movie about the 60-year-old rock legend's life. The finished film, Heart of Gold, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this week. Demme, Young and the singer's wife, Pegi, sat down for lunch with USA TODAY at the Zoom restaurant in Park City, Utah, to discuss their experiences. Here are some outtakes from the interview:
On his health:
"I think physically I'm just the same as I was," Young says eight months after the surgery, which involved creating scar tissue on his brain to overtake the swollen artery. "In the time that I had up until the procedure I put everything I had into making records. If I was doing something like that I wouldn't be thinking about anything else, any of the medical plans. Music just trumps everything."
Was it unusual to write a new album of songs under such stress?
Young shakes his head: "It wasn't that stressful."
But his wife, who sings backup for him, widens her eyes. "It WAS stressful," she insists. "In the back of our minds it was always there."
Young shrugs. "Maybe I just … ignored it."
On writing:
"The whole idea is (Music) is an opportunity to say what's on your mind, and sometimes you don't even know what's on your mind until you start talking," Young says. "The mind is a funny thing. It's not going to say things all by itself. You've got to start communicating and then split second decisions about what to write and what to play all comes out. But you have to get it started. It's all in there, and it comes out."
For Prairie Wind, Young wrote a spiritual, When God Made Me, a hymn-like song that was a departure from him.
"It's very unusual," Young says. "I was telling the guys in the studio, 'Where is this coming from?'"
Young has his superstitions: he likes to start big projects on the night of a full moon, and says he sometimes picks up on subtle vibes.
"It was at Monument Studios, and Roy Orbison recorded a lot of his songs there. It's got a big façade on it now, it kind of looks like a modern building," Young says. "Before that it was a church, it was a morgue, it was a Confederate hospital. A lot of things happened in there, and you could feel it. That whole melody only came to me because I was in there. You stay open and let your emotions and the muse go wherever it wants to go. The idea is not to try too hard to write it."
His other advice about songwriting: "Don't try to be cool." —A.B.
Collette, the snow bunny
Toni Collette has finally conquered the snow.
The Australian actress used her tour at the Sundance Film Festival to face down the snowy slopes while there to showcase the heavily buzzed family comedy Little Miss Sunshine and the drama The Night Listener, in which she's a mysterious woman whose son befriends a late night talk host.
"I flew here from Sydney so they got me a here a couple days early," says Collette, star of The Sixth Sense and Muriel's Wedding. "So there was one day where I threw myself down a mountain and tried snowboarding for the second time in my life."
Turns out the second time was the charm � much more fun, and much less painful.
"The first time I was shooting In Her Shoes and I'd put on a whole heap of weight and had no muscle tone whatsoever," says Collette, who played the responsible, dowdy sister of flaky Cameron Diaz. "So after that few hours of snowboarding I couldn't sit on a toilet let alone walk down stairs. This time I had a three hour lesson and by the end of it I was going down the blue run by myself. It felt great. So I think I'm hooked." —A.B.
Ralph Nader to miss premiere
For Ralph Nader's new role as movie star, he's going to have to try for a second take – at least when it comes to a premiere.
The makers of an epic-sized documentary about the triumphs and tragedies of Ralph Nader's political life are regrouping after the death of his 99-year-old mother forced him to pull out of an appearance at Sundance.
Nader, 71, planned to see An Unreasonable Man for the first time this week and speak publicly about his thoughts on the warts-and-all movie. Henriette Mantel, who co-directed the two-hour-and-30-minute project with Steve Skrovan, says she hopes their subject will see the movie in a few weeks.
"He trusted me, but he hasn't seen the movie yet," she says. "He was going to show up and about the biggest thing happened to him. It doesn't get much bigger than your mother dying."
She's still not sure how he'll react to the film, which gives voice to many of the consumer advocate's critics who say he helped lose the 2000 election for Vice President Al Gore because of his inability to compromise with the Democratic Party.
"Ralph's a good person, that's for sure," says Mantel, a journalist and screenwriter. "But I know everybody's mad at him, and it's tough."
"Liberals blame him for George W. Bush," Skrovan adds. "I was interested in him because I couldn't think of anybody who did as much public good for America, but now he's a pariah. That was an interesting conflict to explore."
The directors say Nader has a thick skin.
"Ralph really encouraged me to talk to people that don't like him," says Mantel, who befriended him nearly three decades ago when she worked briefly as a receptionist at his Center for Study of Responsive Law.
Mantel said that despite his somewhat stiff demeanor and rumpled appearance Nader has a shrewd sense of how entertainment can get his message out.
He embraced silliness as a host of Saturday Night Live in 1977, played himself on Sesame Street and had a cameo in the Jim Carrey movie Fun With Dick and Jane.
"I remember him talking about how when he went on Saturday Night Live there were so many people who didn't know who he was and then kids and younger people started watching him and following him," Mantel says. —A.B.
No rest for 'Sleep'
The reality-bending Sundance favorite The Science of Sleep will likely be in theaters within the year.
The drama about a man (Gael Garcia Bernal) whose surreal dreams begin to invade his real life was picked up for distribution by Warner Independent Features, the specialty arm of Warner Bros. announced late Monday.
Warner Independent paid a reported $6 million for Science, a sizeable price for the French-and-English-language movie written and directed by Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ).
Last year at Sundance, the company acquired the French documentary March of the Penguins, retooled with English narration by Morgan Freeman.
A formal release date hasn't been set, but a Warner Independent rep said it could debut in multiplexes as soon as this fall. —A.B.
You are getting very 'Sleep'-y
There was a rousing reception Sunday night for the world premiere of The Science of Sleep by French director Michel Gondry, the avant-garde music video director turned film director (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'). The film stars Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal and French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg in an experimental romance story involving a string of dreams that Gondry says mostly came from his life.
"After I finished my first film, I was so depressed," Gondry said. "I thought I would have no more ideas. But it comes back. The brain shrinks but compensates with experience."
Bernal confessed he'd once dreamed about being in love with a girl and then telling her about the dream. "The outcome was nothing. Dreams can drive you apart," he laughed.
But one never knows where intimacy can break through, Bernal says. "In my dreams, I once spoke to the president, which let me relate to him more than in real life." Bernal continued, "You think I mean the president of the U.S., but I mean President (Vincente) Fox (of Mexico)." No word from Bernal on whether he told Fox about the dream — or what became of their relationship. —H.J.
The science of script-picking
How do actors choose their roles? Take a lesson from Paul Giamatti, starring in two Sundance premieres.
Alexander Payne called him up and pitched a wine and a nice trip through Sonoma to make last year's Sideways. So what was it that Julian Goldberger said to Giamatti to star in 'The Hawk Is Dying, premiering at Sundance, in which he would play an auto upholsterer trying to train a wild hawk in 100 degree heat in Gainesville?
"He showed me beautiful pictures of hawks in a book. Working with an animal like that was kind of interesting — you know, can you I tie a hawk to your arm and still act," Giamatti asked himself. "So, OK," Giamatti says, "never been to Gainesville."
Giamatti also plays a police inspector in Neil Burger's The Illusionist, starring Edward Norton as a conjurer of spirits in 1900 Vienna. The film got an enthusiastic response at its world premiere here Sunday night. "I got to smoke a pipe and wear a cool hat," Giamatti says. "And the period thing seemed intriguing — never did that before. You know these costumes — the pipe and the hat — you put that stuff on, and they do a helluva lot of the work for you." —H.J.
Aniston cleans up
Jennifer Aniston plays a maid in Nicole Holofcener's Friends With Money, which opened Sundance. Her schooldays friends, now all late 30-somethings — played by Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack and Frances McDormand — all have money, while Aniston is drifting sideways after leaving her job as a teacher and ending up cleaning people's toilets.
What does work mean to Aniston in good times and bad?
"I love my work. I love my job. I love to work when things are going great. I love to work when they're going crappy. I'm honored that I get to do this work."
Yes but does she like to clean house? "I do like to clean!" she exclaimed. "Whenever we had a little thing on set, we cleaned."
"Keener loves to clean," quipped Holofcener. "She's the cleaner."
Asked about the swag she's getting at Sundance, Holofcener shot back, "Where? Where's the swag?"
"The (stuff) we all get is not really free," Keener said. "You're at the booth, they take your picture. So it comes with a price." —H.J.
Plenty of 'Sunshine' coming your way
Fox Searchlight, which over the weekend picked up Little Miss Sunshine at the fest, was also showcasing 'Thank You For Smoking,' a dark comedy acquired at Toronto that stars Aaron Eckhart as a pro-cigarette spokesman whose bold lies make him a celebrity.
Smoking, based on a Christopher Buckley novel, did a victory lap at Sundance to gain publicity for its March 17 debut in theaters. Buzz remains strong.
"Going into Toronto I had a lot of fears about who was going to pick it up," says first-time feature director Jason Reitman (son of Stripes' and Ghostbusters' director Ivan Reitman.) "Honestly, having played Sundance three times with short films, I'm just hoping to have a lot of fun." —A.B.


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Northwestern College's Bridgeview Campus (7725 S. Harlem Avenue) today held a self-defense training for students and employees conducted by its Criminal Justice Program Coordinator Mark Mitchell, a retired Lieutenant of the Palos Hills Police Department. The event was extremely successful with over 100 people attending, including approximately 80 students and 25 employees. The training was designed to induce better awareness of surroundings and demonstrate defense techniques for situations most commonly encountered, especially on college campuses or while traveling to and from them.
Mitchell holds a First Degree Black Belt in Hapkido, a Korean martial art that is a form of self-defense. Hapkido utilizes joint locks, grappling and throwing techniques similar to other martial arts, in addition to kicks, punches, and other striking attacks. Mitchell provided a one hour self-defense training that touched upon awareness, general tips to protect oneself by preventing opportunities for attack, some common sense advice, and actual hands-on demonstrations of self-defense techniques. The program was hosted by Northwestern College's Student Services Department.
"We're creatures of habit," noted Mitchell. "Assailants know that if you're on your cell phone, talking or texting, you're not paying attention to what's around you." He went on to point out the importance of basic awareness of surroundings, awareness when walking, and when approaching your vehicle, especially at night. Further discussion involved decision-making to defend yourself verses fleeing, coupled with a series of "what if" scenarios whereby he walked the attendees through the formulation of response plans in various situations.
Finally, Mitchell demonstrated a series of basic self-defense tactics when presented with an assailant, including how to respond to attacks from the front as well as rear. With respect to armed assailants, he noted various knife and gun disarm time restraints for consideration. Throughout the entire presentation, Mitchell engaged the group and responded to questions raised throughout.
Northwestern College was pleased when Mitchell stepped up to facilitate the training, saving the college the costs of hiring from outside the institution. While a $75 honorarium stipend was given to Mitchell for volunteering to provide this training, he instead donated the funds to the campus's Criminal Justice Club, the Zeta Sigma Alpha Chapter of the American Criminal Justice Association. Mitchell serves as the Chapter's Advisor.
"The safety of our students and staff are of the highest priority here at Northwestern College," commented Lawrence Schumacher, the College's President. "While we hope the need will never arise, familiarity with the basics of self-defense is crucial for everyone."
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