title: Cardiovascular risk assessment scoring system for the determination of cardiovascular mortality in renal transplant patients.
abstract: It is well known that the greatest risk for mortality post-renal transplant is cardiovascular death. We compared a modified cardiac risk assessment system among renal transplant patients who subsequently died versus the group that survived. There was a good correlation between the low, medium, and high scores with survival. The deceased group had significantly greater cardiovascular scores than case controls.
authors.affiliation: Department of Renal and Liver Transplant, The Freeman Hospital, High Heaton, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE7 7DN, UK. ajaygupta21@hotmail.com
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wroe
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mi
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Asher
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Gok
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Shenton
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Talbot
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001794:Blood Pressure; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality; D018570:Risk Assessment; D016019:Survival Analysis