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Cardiovascular risk in renal transplantation
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- Fellström, Bengt (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper,Renal medicine
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Holdaas, Hallvard (författare)
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Jardine, Alan (författare)
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(creator_code:org_t)
- 2008
- 2008
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Trends in Transplantation. - 1887-455X. ; 2:2, s. 92-100
- Relaterad länk:
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https://urn.kb.se/re...
Abstract
Ämnesord
Stäng
- Renal transplant patients suffer from a higher risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The risk-factor spectrum is different from the general population; several risk factors are transplantation specific, and to a large extent dependent on the immunosuppressive drugs used to prevent rejection. Due to the complexity of the risk factors, the variable impact of each factor on different cardiovascular outcomes and the inter-relationships between risk factors, it is difficult to judge the overall cardiovascular risk in a single renal transplant patient. In this paper we review risk-factor data from the literature, limited to single risk factors and their impact on single cardiovascular outcomes. We believe that a cardiovascular risk calculator specific to the renal transplant population, which takes into account all the important risk factors for a cardiovascular event, based upon a high quality database such as the ALERT data set, may provide a solid guidance to means to assess the overall cardiovascular risk in renal transplant recipients.
Ämnesord
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Urologi och njurmedicin (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Urology and Nephrology (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Renal
- Transplantation
- Cardiovascular
- Risk factor.
- Kidney diseases
- Njursjukdomar
- Medicine
- medicin
Publikations- och innehållstyp
- vet (ämneskategori)
- rec (ämneskategori)
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