Novel, More Accurate Assessments of Renal Function in Heart Transplant Patients: Commentary on ‘Chronic kidney disease after heart transplantation: a single-centre retrospective study at Skåne University Hospital in Lund 1988-2010’
Abstract:Emerging improvements in heart transplantation have led to increased survival and a greater need to better understand the long-term complications of heart transplant. An emerging postsurgical issue of nonrenal solidorgan transplantation is development of chronic kidney disease (CKD), which has been related to significant morbidity and mortality in heart transplant patients that is related to factors that exist before, during and after surgeries. A better understanding of these factors is imperative to predicti… Show more
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