Waiting List and Kidney Transplant Vascular Risk: An Ongoing Unmet Concern

• Main Authors: Domingo Hernández (Author), Juana Alonso-Titos (Author), Ana Maria Armas-Padrón (Author), Veronica Lopez (Author), Mercedes Cabello (Author), Eugenia Sola (Author), Laura Fuentes (Author), Elena Gutierrez (Author), Teresa Vazquez (Author), Tamara Jimenez (Author), Pedro Ruiz-Esteban (Author), Miguel Gonzalez-Molina (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Karger Publishers, 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an important independent risk factor for adverse cardiovascular events in patients waitlisted for kidney transplantation (KT). Although KT reduces cardiovascular risk, these patients still have a higher all-cause and cardiovascular mortality than the gener...