Hematology

Transplant nephrology

Questions discussed in this category

How do you counsel patients who experience diarrhea from mycophenolate mofetil (Cellcept)?

Do you generally recommend anti-diarrheals, dietary modifications, or consider this an unacceptable side effect and move to other therapies?

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How would you approach management of a patient with ESRD on the transplant list who is found to have high titer APS labs (ACL, B2GP1, LAC)?

1 Answer available

How would you approach post-operative VTE prophylaxis for renal transplant in patients with a prior history of provoked VTE?

Are there specific guidelines for managing this patient population?

1 Answer available

Would you recommend complement testing in a kidney transplant recipient with chronic antibody-mediated rejection and biopsy-proven thrombotic microangiopathy to determine the need for eculizumab?

1 Answer available

Do you recommend starting aspirin for a patient with ESKD secondary to lupus nephritis with detected antiphospholipid antibodies on pretransplant workup but no history of a thrombotic event?

3 Answers available

Would you consider clearing a patient with essential thrombocytosis for a kidney donation?

1 Answer available

Papers discussed in this category

J Rheumatol, 2017 May 15

Longterm Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Low-dose Aspirin May Have an Additive Effectiveness in the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

Therapeutic drug monitoring, 2022 Jun 01

Drug-Drug Interactions Between Mycophenolic Acid and Proton Pump Inhibitors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

European surgical research. Europaische chirurgische Forschung. Recherches chirurgicales europeennes, 2021 Dec 06

Antithrombotic Management in Adult Kidney Transplantation: A European Survey Study.

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