Objectives: To assess the degree of immunosuppressive medication adherence in kidney transplant patients (KTPs) and to determine if there is a difference in the rate of adherence to tacrolimus (Tac), cyclosporine (CsA) and sirolimus (Sir). Subjects and Methods: From a total of 63 KTPs ...
All consecutive patients who received either a living or deceased donor kidney transplant in the Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, between August, 2010, and October, 2011, were invited to participate in the study. The inclusion criteria required that kidney transplant patients were older than 18 ye...
1. Introduction Kidney transplant patients are required to take lifelong immunosuppressive medication to prevent graft rejection. Nonadherence to immunosuppressive medication is a common issue and increases over time. Both dosage and timing of medication are crucial. Failure to take the medication as ...
This study explored beliefs about medications and perceived barriers among 40 adolescent kidney transplant patients and their parents. Younger adolescents reported greater concern about medication harmfulness ((38)=2.190, (38)=2.049, (37)=2.933关键词: Medication beliefs Barriers Renal transplant ...
Introduction: This study considered medication reconciliations performed on hospital admission of kidney transplant patients and pharmaceutical interventio... D Aparecida Reis,JD Silva Winter,VL Milani Martins,... - 《Clinical & Biomedical Research》 被引量: 0发表: 2023年 加载更多来源...
Introduction Oral immunosuppressant suspension induces renal graft dysfunction in renal transplant patients. After the Great East Japan Earthquake, not only were drugs lost in the tsunami, but visiting hospitals became difficult owing to information and transportation network disruption. We investigated medic...
TacrolimusTacrolimusTacrolimus is used as a first-line anti-rejection drug after liver and kidney transplantation, and has achieved good clinical thera...
Cardiovascular medication use after coronary bypass surgery in patients with renal dysfunction: A national Veterans Administration study. Background Chronic kidney disease is now recognized as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular events. We sought to determine if cardiovascular medications were utiliz...
Results: Of the 14,703 kidney transplant recipients eligible for the study, 73% were adherent and 85% had a surviving graft (1 to 9780 post-transplant). After adjusting for covariates, the odds of having a surviving graft were higher for adherent patients than for non-adherent patients (OR...
Background.Patients with chronic kidney disease have multiple comorbidities and require complicated therapeutic regimens. The role of pharmacists caring fo... F Fernandez-Llimos - Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal...