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Kidney Transplants

Studies from A. Fernandez and co-authors have provided new information about kidney transplants

Published in Gastroenterology Week, December 10th, 2007

According to recent research from Madrid, Spain, "Great interindividual variability in the pharmacokinetics of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) exists among kidney transplanted patients. The within-patient variability in stable transplanted patients is not well established."

"We performed 258 determinations of trough MMF levels in 86 stable transplant patients without hematological or gastrointestinal toxicity after at least year of a functioning kidney and a fixed dose of MMF. We examined the within-patient variability of levels related with clinical factors (age, gender, underlying cause of kidney failure, time since transplant, associated immunosuppression, and MMF dose)...

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