Is standardized cardiac assessment of asymptomatic high-risk renal transplant candidates beneficial?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3006-3012

  Aalten, Jeroen ^a   Peeters, Stijn A ^a   Van Der Vlugt, Maureen J ^a   Hoitsma, Andries J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cardiac events; cardiac risk assessment; non invasive cardiac stress testing; renal transplantation; revascularization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDIZATION;

ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 80053205339     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq822     Document Type: Article

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