None listed
Conditions
Interventions
Cohort study to evaluate vascular risk markers in renal transplant recipients for patient and transplant survival for 5 years
methods: renal resistance index measured by color-coded duplex ultrasound; arterial sffness measured by pulse wave velocity; assymmetric dimethyl arginine measured by chromatography, angiopoetin2 measured by Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)
Sponsors
PD Dr. Ute Eisenberger
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
- at least 6 months after kidney transplantation - stable transplant function - >= 18 years old - written informed consent
Exclusion criteria
- cardiac arrhythmies which make a measurement of arterial stiffness and renal resistance index impossible - transplant artery stenosis of > 50% of diameter - postrenal obstruction (grade 2 or more) - significant compression of the tr
Outcome results
None listed