title: A simple cardiovascular risk score can predict poor outcome in non-heart-beating donor renal transplantation.
abstract: A simple cardiovascular risk score used in our centre to plan cardiovascular work-up for renal transplantation can predict outcome in non-heart-beating donor (NHBD) renal transplantation. Patients in the higher-risk group, with a score of >12 of a maximum of 36 are likely to have a longer duration of delayed graft function, poorer glomerular filtration rate at 6 months, and inferior graft and patient survival, together with a relative rate of graft loss within 60 days of 4.514 (P = .019) and within 1 year of 3.511 (P = .036). Although a high cardiovascular risk score should not be regarded as a contraindication to NHBD transplantation, the score can be used to facilitate recipient selection.
authors.affiliation: Liver and Renal Transplant Unit, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. john.asher@btinternet.com
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authors.lastname: Asher
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mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001794:Blood Pressure; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006085:Graft Survival / Q000502:physiology*; D006323:Heart Arrest; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D014019:Tissue Donors; D016896:Treatment Outcome