Monitoring and managing graft health in the kidney transplant recipient

MA Josephson - Clinical Journal of the American Society of …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Ongoing monitoring of kidney transplants is a widely accepted and practiced part of
posttransplantation management. One reason to monitor is to evaluate whether the
transplant is stable. The transplant community evaluates stability by checking kidney
function. Despite problems with sensitivity and specificity, obtaining serial serum creatinine
levels is the most common approach to assessing kidney function. Some programs
supplement serial serum creatinine levels with surveillance kidney biopsies. Although not …