Heart Disease

Researchers from University of Toronto describe findings in heart disease

Published in Hospital Business Week, December 2nd, 2007

According to a study from Toronto, Canada, "Cardiovascular (CV) disease is the foremost cause of mortality and an important cause of morbidity in renal transplant recipients. The disease burden is likely to increase as older patients are accepted for transplantation."

"The outcome of these high-CV risk patients after renal transplantation, especially with known pre-transplant coronary artery disease (CAD), has not been studied. Hence, we looked at the CV outcome in patients with known pre-transplant CAD All renal transplants performed between 1998 and 2002 at our center, followed up to 2005, were divided into high- and low-risk groups, based on the presence of one or...

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Source: Hospital Business Week (2007-12-02)

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