Carl Grabitz, Rizky I Sugianto, Anke Doyon, Karolis Azukaitis, Ali Anarat, Justine Bacchetta, Aysun K Bayazit, Ipek K Bulut, Salim Caliskan, Nur Canpolat, Ali Duzova, Jerome Harambat, Aysel Kiyak, Germana Longo, Lukasz Obrycki, Dusan Paripovic, Daniela Thurn-Valsassina, Alev Yilmaz, Rukshana Shroff, Franz Schaefer, Bernhard M W Schmidt, Anette Melk
BACKGROUND: Children requiring kidney replacement therapy experience high burden of cardiovascular (CV) disease leading to increased mortality. Intima-media thickness (IMT) indicating atherosclerosis is a validated surrogate marker for future CV events. METHODS: We investigated the effect of different treatment modalities (dialysis, preemptive kidney transplantation (KTx), late KTx after dialysis) on IMT by multivariable linear mixed-effect modeling. Patients were enrolled in a prospective cohort study...
January 16, 2024: Transplantation