Ron Shapiro, M.D.
Selected recent publications:

  • Farasati NF, Shapiro R, Vats A, Randhawa P. Effect of Leflunomide and Cidofovir on Replication of BK Virus in an in vitro culture system. Transplantation 79(1):116-118, 2005.
  • Hackstein H, Shapiro R, Thomson AW. Aspirin promotes kidney allograft survival and function. Transplantation 79(2): 253-254, 2005.
  • Macedo C, Popescu I, Abu-Elmagd K, Reyes J, Shapiro R, Zeevi A, Berghaus JM, Wang LF, Lu L, Thomson AW, Storkus WJ, Fung JJ, Metes D. Augmentation of Type-1 polarizing ability of monocyte-derived dendritic cells from chronically immunosuppressed organ-transplant recipients. Transplantation 79(4) 451-460, 2005.
  • Randhawa PS, Vats A, Shapiro R. Monitoring for polyomavirus BK and JC in urine: Comparison of Q-PCR with urine cytology. Transplantation 79:984-986, 2005.
  • Randhawa PS, Shapiro R, Vats A. Quantitation of polyomavirus JC and BK DNA in the human kidney. J. Infect Disease 192:504-9, 2005.
  • Thai N, Khan AS, Tom K, Basu A, Shapiro R, Fung JJ. Revascularization of the gastroduodenal artery in a pancreas allograft from a donor with a replaced right hepatic artery. Transplantation 79(4):203, February 27, 2005.
  • Shapiro R, Young JB, Milford EL, Trotter JF, Bustami RT, Leichtman AB. Immunosuppression: Evolution in practice and trends, 1993-2003. Am J Transpl 5(4):2 874-886, 2005.
  • Randhawa PS and Shapiro R. Chronic Renal Failure After Liver Transplantation. Am J Transpl 5: 967-968, 2005.
  • Shapiro R, Basu A, Tan H, Gray E, Khan A, Randhawa P, Murase N, Zeevi A, Girnita A, Metes D, Ness R, Bass DC, Demetris AJ, Fung JJ, Marcos A, Starzl TE. Kidney transplantation under minimal immunosuppression after pretransplant lymphoid depletion with Thymoglobulin or Campath. J Am Coll Surg 200(4):505-515, April 2005.
  • Shapiro R. Tacrolimus pharmacokinetics in pediatric renal transplant patients. Pediatr Transplantation 9:133, 2005.
  • Basu A, Ramkumar M, Tan HP, Khan A, McCauley J, Marcos A, Fung JJ, Starzl TE, Shapiro R. Reversal of acute cellular rejection after renal transplantation with Campath-1H. Transpl Proceed 37:923-926, 2005.
  • Hirsch HH, Brennan DC, Drachenberg CB, Ginevri F, Gordon J, Limaye A, Mihatsch MJ, Nickeleit V, Ramos E, Randhawa P, Shapiro R, Steiger J, Suthanthiran M, Trofe J. Polyomavirus-associated nephropathy in renal transplantation: Interdisciplinary analyses and recommendations. Transplantation 79(10):1277-1286, 2005.
  • Wu C, Evans I, Joseph R, Shapiro R, Tan HP, Basu A, Smetanka C, Khan A, McCauley J, Unruh M. Comorbid conditions in kidney transplantation: Association with graft and patient survival. J Am Soc Nephrol 16:(10)1681-88, 2005.
  • Randhawa P, Uhrmacher J, Pasculle W, Vats A, Shapiro R, Eghtesad B and Weck K. A comparative study of BK and JC virus infections in organ transplant recipients. J Med Virol 77:238-243, 2005.
  • Awadallah Y, Duquesnoy R, Shapiro R, Randhawa PS. HLA genotype and susceptibility to BK virus infection. Am J Transpl (Letter), in press.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Dr. Ron Shapiro
Phone: (412) 647-5800
Email: shapiror@upmc.edu