Noninvasive Analyses of Kidney Injury Molecule-1 Messenger RNA in Kidney Transplant Recipients With Graft Dysfunction

Derivation of a Predictive Model for Graft Loss Following Acute Kidney Injury in Kidney Transplant Recipients

BACKGROUND Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common in the kidney transplant population. OBJECTIVE To derive a multivariable survival model that predicts time to graft loss following AKI. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study using health care administrative and laboratory databases. SETTING Southwestern Ontario (1999-2013) and Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (1996-2013). PATIENTS We included first-time...

Covid-19 infection in kidney transplant recipients: a case report

Associations of pre-transplant anemia management with post-transplant delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients.

BACKGROUND Delayed graft function (DGF) complicates kidney allograft outcomes in the immediate post-transplantation period. We hypothesized that in hemodialysis patients more severe anemia, iron deficiency, the requirement for higher doses of erythropoietin-stimulating agents (ESA), or blood transfusions prior to transplantation are associated with higher risk of DGF. METHODS Linking five-yr ...

Long-term graft function changes in kidney transplant recipients

Background. Monitoring changes in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is the recommended method for assessing the progression of kidney disease. The aim of this study was to assess the decline of graft function defined by the annualized change in GFR and the factors which affect it.Methods. Four thousand four hundred and eighty-eight patients, transplanted during the years 1990, 1994, 1998 and 200...

Cataract in kidney transplant recipients.

The relationship between the administrated dose of steroid and the grade of cataract was studied in 22 kidney transplant recipients maintaining a good graft function for more than one year. Posterior subcapsular cataract was observed in 19 patients, of whom seven showed severe cataract accompanied by visual disturbance. The total dose of steroid, particularly the dose in the period from three m...