title: [Plasma erythropoietin levels of kidney transplant patients in the early period after transplantation].
abstract: Plasma erythropoietin (EPO) levels were assessed in 51 uraemic patients immediately after kidney transplantations and in 16 healthy subjects. Before transplantation EPO levels were significantly higher than in normals. In patients with acute renal failure of the transplanted kidney, a significant increase of plasma EPO level was noticed. Such an increase of plasma EPO was absent in patients with a normally functioning kidney transplant. In these last patients normalization of plasma EPO was found during the first month after transplantation. No significant correlation was found between plasma EPO level and the haematocrit value in kidney transplant patients. From results obtained in this study it seems, that factors other than EPO are also involved in the pathogenesis of anaemia in patients at the early phase after kidney transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Katedra i Klinika Nefrologii Sl. A.M. w Katowicach.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kokot
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Grzeszczak
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wiecek
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lao
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gradowska
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jagiełło
mesh_terms: D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000097:blood; D000328:Adult; D004921:Erythropoietin / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male
chemical_list: D004921:Erythropoietin
vernacular_title: Stezenie erytropoetyny we krwi u chorych z przeszczepiona nerka we wczesnym okresie po transplantacji.