Jan 21, 2021

Cardiac MRI assessment of the right ventricle pre-and post-kidney transplant

The international journal of cardiovascular imaging
Abdulaziz Ahmed Hashi, G V Ramesh Prasad, Philip W Connelly, Djeven P Deva, Michelle M Nash, Weiqiu Yuan, Rachel M Wald, Ron Wald, Lakshman Gunaratnam, Charmaine E Lok, S Joseph Kim, Gauri R Karur, Kim A Connelly, Andrew T Yan
Worsening renal function in chronic kidney disease correlates with worsening right ventricular (RV) systolic function. We evaluated the association between kidney transplantation (KT) and RV structure and systolic function, and the relationships between RV and left ventricular (LV) changes, blood pressure, and specific cardiac biomarkers, in patients with end-stage kidney disease using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR). In this prospective, multi-centre, cohort study, 39 adult patients on...