The outpatient management of patients with a transplanted kidney
Obukh, I.B.; Sokol'skiĭ, A.S.; Filiptsev, P.I.; Rostoshinskiĭ, A.V.; Kazarov, A.R.
Terapevticheskii Arkhiv 62(6): 95-98
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0040-3660 PMID: 2218938 Document Number: 352371
Organization of the management of outpatients with a transplanted kidney is described. The basis of such organization is formed by documentation of the patients' status during the entire observation period in a special card containing the data on the donor; distant monitoring of cyclosporin A for patients living far from the clinic; training of patients. The main complications that occur in patients with a transplanted kidney in the long-term postoperative period are related. They are pyelonephritis of the transplant, essential hypertension and symptomatic hypererythrocytosis. The 2-year survival of the patients is 70.8%, that of the transplant 73.1%.