Pre-operative Evaluation of Kidney & Pancreas Transplant Patients
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Examine the clinical utility of the dobutamine stress contrast echoes and angiograms obtained routinely in the evaluation of patients prior to kidney or pancreas transplantation.
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Although there is an increasing quantity of data demonstrating the value of stress echo in risk stratifying patients for cardiac risk prior to major non-cardiac surgery, the current clinical practice utilized for assessing patients being evaluated for kidney or pancreas transplantation is both a stress echocardiogram and a coronary angiogram. This gap in opinion appears to be a concern on the part of both nephrologists, endocrinologists, and surgeons that the stress echocardiogram may miss significant angiographic disease that could result in major post-operative complications in this high-risk subgroup of patients (unstable angina, non-fatal infarction, or death).
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- Patients who are being evaluated for a kidney and or pancreas transplant and scheduled for a dobutamine stress echocardiogram and a coronary angiogram will be eligible to participate
Exclusion criteria
- Patients with unstable angina at the time of their evaluation, or who have a severe underlying cardiomyopathy or valve disease will be excluded.
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150 participants in 1 patient group
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