Pre-Operative Cardiovascular Testing and Post-Renal Transplant Clinical Outcomes
Highlights
- • Non-invasive functional testing is common before renal transplantation.
- • Few patients are revascularized before transplantation.
- • Perioperative death and acute coronary syndrome are rare.
- • Troponin elevations due to type II NSTEMI and myocardial injury are common.
Abstract
Background
Cardiovascular disease, a major contributor to morbidity and mortality in chronic kidney disease and kidney transplant patients, is closely evaluated before kidney transplant. We aimed to characterize pre-transplant cardiac testing practices and post-transplant cardiac outcomes at a single academic center.