Atrial changes after kidney transplant: what diagnostic and therapeutic perspectives?
Gaetano La MannaIrene CapelliPublished in: Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (2018)
Kidney transplant is known to be the first choice therapy for end stage chronic kidney disease, also for its positive effects on kidney transplant recipients cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Several evidences evaluated the morphological changes of the left ventricle before and after transplantation, demonstrating a positive effect of at least partial regression of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in kidney transplant recipients. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Keyphrases
- chronic kidney disease
- left ventricular
- mitral valve
- end stage renal disease
- left atrial
- atrial fibrillation
- heart failure
- pulmonary artery
- pulmonary hypertension
- acute myocardial infarction
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- aortic stenosis
- coronary artery
- peritoneal dialysis
- coronary artery disease
- acute coronary syndrome
- catheter ablation
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement