Arterial Stiffness and Calcifications in Incident Renal Transplant Recipients (ASCIT)

Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

Status: Completed

Conditions: Atherosclerosis; Renal Transplant; Arterial Stiffness

Treatments: Other: no intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00547040

ML3775

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the:

• Natural history of calcification posttransplantation
• Natural history of BMC following renal transplantation
• Reverse correlation between calcification score and aortic calcifications following renal transplantation
• Correlation of IMT, BMC, PWV and biochemical variables
• Correlation of IMT, BMC, PWV, biochemical variables and outcome
• Predictors of CV disease after transplantation
• Predictors of IMT progression, BMC loss and PWV progression after renal transplantation

Enrollment: 304 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Incident renal transplant patients or combined renal/pancreas transplant patients

Trial design

304 participants in 1 patient group

A

Description:

incident renal transplant patients

Treatment:

Other: no intervention