Articles tagged "Renal dysfunction"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Correlates and Consequences of Gout Among Living Kidney Donors
N. Lam,¹ A. Garg,¹ D. Segev,² M. Schnitzler,³ H. Xiao,³ D. Axelrod,⁴ J. Tuttle-Newhall,³ D. Brennan,⁵ B. Kasiske,⁶ K. Lentine.³
¹Western Uni., London, Canada; ²John Hopkins Uni., Baltimore; ³Saint Louis Uni., St. Louis; ⁴Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover; ⁵Washington Uni., St. Louis; ⁶Uni. of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Background: Currently, the demographic correlates and consequences of gout in living kidney donors are understudied.Methods: We examined a novel database that linked national U.S. identifiers…