Pre-operative Evaluation of Kidney & Pancreas Transplant Patients

Kidney Transplantation Clinical Trial

Official title: The Analysis of Data Collected During Angiography and Dobutamine Stress Contrast Echocardiograms in the Pre-Evaluation of Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Patients

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Clinical Trial Description

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). ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Kidney Transplantation
• Pancreas Transplantation

• NCT number: NCT00580437
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Nebraska
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 2, 2003
• Completion date: April 1, 2012