Nephrology

Transplant Hepatology

Questions discussed in this category

What is your strategy to manage the complication of long-term immunosuppression in liver transplant recipients, specifically renal dysfunction and onset of cardiometabolic comorbidities?

Do you opt for dose reduction? Switching medications?

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Is there a serum ammonium level for which you recommend initiation of dialysis in a patient with hepatic encephalopathy?

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Should a patient who requires definitive treatment for prostate cancer as a pre-transplant requirement be strictly required to complete their course prior to transplant/initiation of immunosuppression?

Patient is undergoing RT and has already started on a GnRH antagonist. If so, how long after their last fraction would be an appropriate wait time?

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Can tacrolimus in a transplant patient be used during radiation and concurrent chemoradiation?

Does your practice differ depending on the disease site?

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Are there instances when you use letermovir without the addition of acyclovir when managing a kidney transplant recipient for CMV prophylaxis?

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Do you routinely use markers or tests other than serum creatinine when estimating GFR to determine if patients with liver failure, not on dialysis, meet criteria for a simultaneous liver-kidney transplant?

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How has the introduction of lumasiran affected the need for combined liver and kidney transplantation in patients with ESKD related to primary hyperoxaluria type 1?

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Papers discussed in this category

Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association, 2023 Feb 13

Isolated kidney transplantation under lumasiran therapy in primary hyperoxaluria type 1: a report of five cases.

Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, 2021 Aug 01

Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate in Cirrhosis Using Creatinine-Based and Cystatin C-Based Equations: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN, 2023 Oct 17

How We Treat Hyperammonemia in Acute Liver Failure.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2020 Oct 23

Pretransplant solid organ malignancy and organ transplant candidacy: A consensus expert opinion statement.

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