title: Acute renal failure in liver transplant patients: Indian study.
abstract: The acute renal failure is the frequent medical complication observed in liver transplant patients. The objective of this study was to determine the cause of acute renal failure in post liver transplant patients. A total of 70 patients who underwent (cadaveric 52, live 18) liver transplantation were categorized based on clinical presentation into two groups, namely hepatorenal failure (HRF, n = 29), and Hepatic failure (HF, n = 41). All the patients after the liver transplant had received tacrolimus, mycophenolate and steroids. We analyzed the modification of diet in renal disease, (MDRD) serum urea, creatinine and albumin before and after 5th and 30th day of liver transplant and data was categorized into survivors and non-survivors group. In HRF survivor group, serum creatinine, and urea levels were high and, albumin, MDRD were low in pre- transplant and reached to normal levels on 30th day of post transplant, and 79.3 % of patients in this group showed resumption of normal kidney function. On the contrary in HRF nonsurvivor group, we did not observed any significant difference and 20.7 % of patients showed irreversible changes after the liver transplant. In HF survivor group, 82.9 % of liver failure patients did not show any deviation in serum creatinine, urea, albumin and MDRD, whereas in HF non survivor group, 17.1 % of liver failure patients who had HCV positive before the transplant developed acute renal failure. The levels of creatinine, urea, albumin and MDRD were normal before the transplant and on day 30th, the levels of albumin and MDRD were significantly low whereas serum urea, creatinine levels were high. In conclusion, based on these observations, an diagnosis and treatment of Acute renal failure is important among the liver transplantation cases in the early postoperative period.
authors: Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Global Hospitals, Lakdikapool, Hyderabad, 500004 India.
authors: Pradeep
authors: P
authors: Naik
authors: Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Global Hospitals, Lakdikapool, Hyderabad, 500004 India.
authors: B
authors: B
authors: Premsagar
authors: Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Global Hospitals, Lakdikapool, Hyderabad, 500004 India.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Mallikarjuna
keywords: Acute renal failure; Hepatic failure; Immunosuppression; Liver transplant
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