As for cases, we excluded recipients who had had hepatocellular carcinoma.
We excluded recipients who had hepatocellular carcinoma as the reason for transplant or detected in the explanted liver.
For the present analysis we excluded recipients with multiple or multi-organ transplantation, creatinine kinase ≥200 U/L, acute renal failure, and without creatinine assessments in 3 months pre-enrollment leaving 281 subjects overall.
One answer is that they think these cuts will only affect immigrants, since they are proposing to exclude recipients of immigration relief, such as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA), from receiving the credits.
Such selection may preferentially include recipients experiencing rapid replication, while excluding recipients with a less dramatic increase in virus load.
The same pattern was observed when excluding recipients that did not store sperm (Spearman's correlation, rS = 0.77, N = 45, P < 0.001; Wilcoxon signed-rank test, S = -262.5, N = 45, P < 0.001).
We assessed the repeatability including and excluding recipients without sperm in storage (6 individuals for total sperm, 14 for fluorescent sperm), as they may lead to an overestimation of the repeatability.
As donor/recipient mixed chimerism may contribute to kidney fibrosis [ 19], it cannot be excluded that recipient CAV1 genetic polymorphism may influence graft outcome.
We excluded 105 recipients with existing diabetes (defined as fasting plasma glucose ≥7.0 or antidiabetic medication) at baseline from analysis.
Second, while we excluded the recipients of iatrogenic immunosuppressive agents that enhance the risk of CMV reactivation, critically ill patients in whom corticosteroids were employed were included.
