Gaetano La Manna

• Clinical significance of elevated kappa and lambda light chains in patients with chronic kidney disease without MGUS, both in transplant recipients and in normal patients

• Renal toxicity during checkpoint inhibitor treatment

• Frailty in transplant patients: analysis of indicators and therapeutic strategies

• Innate immunity and the risk of rejection in kidney transplant recipients

• Evaluation of aging in kidney transplant patients

• Histological diagnoses and clinical progression of patients with isolated microhematuria undergoing renal biopsy

• Mesangial IgA deposits nephropathy in patients with chronic gastrointestinal inflammatory diseases: clinical progression, therapies, and outcomes

• Retrospective observational study on outcomes of complications: quality of life and CKD complications in kidney transplant recipients with CKD stages 3a, 3b, and 4 vs. non-transplanted patients with the same CKD stage

• Retrospective observational study on clinical, cardiovascular, and CKD outcomes in kidney transplant recipients with combined liver-kidney transplantation

• Observational study on clinical outcomes and quality of life in kidney transplant recipients with intervention by a clinical pharmacist

• Comparison between myocardial scintigraphy and stress echocardiography in predicting cardiovascular events in dialysis patients in the pre-kidney transplant study

• Preliminary analysis of the TRIAD study (Toxins Removal and Inflammatory state modulAtion during online hemodiafiltration: comparison of 2 different Dialyzers)

• Single-centre analysis of CVC-related bacteraemia

• Therapies for polycystic liver-kidney disease

• New therapies for chronic kidney disease

• Histopathology of Fabry disease

• Bone-kidney axis

• Biomarkers and inflammation in kidney transplantation, relationship with short- and long-term outcomes

The supervisor will be evaluated based on the topic and availability, and the dissertation title will be adjusted according to the student's course of study