Advances in chronic kidney disease
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Adv Chronic Kidney Dis · Sep 2015
ReviewChronic Kidney Disease and Related Long-Term Complications After Liver Transplantation.
Liver transplantation is the standard of care for patients with decompensated cirrhosis. Liver transplantation recipients have excellent short-term and long-term outcomes including patient and graft survival. ⋯ Occurrence of Stage 4 chronic kidney disease and end stage renal disease substantially increases the risk of post-transplant deaths. Because majority of late post-transplant mortality is due to nonhepatic post-transplant comorbidities, personalized care directed toward risk factor modification may further improve post-transplant survival.