Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2015, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (24): 3924-3928.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2015.24.028

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Fasting blood glucose and prognosis of patients surviving over 1 year after renal transplantation 

Wang Li     

  1. Department of Nephrology, Xiantao First People’s Hospital, Xiantao 43300, Hubei Province, China
  • Online:2015-06-11 Published:2015-06-11
  • Contact: Wang Li, Department of Nephrology, Xiantao First People’s Hospital, Xiantao 43300, Hubei Province, China
  • About author:Hospital, Xiantao 43300, Hubei Province, China

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus after kidney transplantation is an important metabolic complication of the transplanted organ, and seriously affects the quality of life and long-term survival rate of patients, which is a risk factor for renal allograft dysfunction and cardiovascular disease.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the changes in fasting blood glucose and prognosis of patients who had survived more than 1 year after renal transplantation.
METHODS: Totally 42 patients undergoing renal transplantation admitted at Xiantao First People’s Hospital from January 2003 to January 2013, including 7 cases of preoperative diabetes, 11 cases of impaired fasting glucose and 24 cases of normal fasting blood glucose. Fasting blood glucose levels were detected at 1, 7, 14 days and 1, 3, 6, 12 months after renal transplantation, and the survival conditions were also compared among different groups. Cox proportional hazard model was used to analyze influential factors of survival in patients undergoing renal transplantation.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The fasting blood glucose levels in the diabetes mellitus group were significantly higher than those in the impaired fasting glucose group and normal fasting blood glucose group before and after renal transplantation (P < 0.05). The fasting blood glucose levels were increased in all the groups at 1 day after transplantation (P < 0.05), and stabilized at 3 months after transplantation. The survival rate was significantly higher in the normal fasting blood glucose group than in the diabetes mellitus and impaired fasting glucose groups after renal transplantation (P < 0.05). Cox proportional hazard model analysis showed that preoperative fasting blood glucose, age, postoperative tumor and infection were the independent risk factors for death in patients undergoing renal transplantation, among which, postoperative tumor led to the highest death risk ratio that was 2.376. Taken together, preoperative diabetes mellitus has some impacts on renal recipients who survive 
more than 1 year following transplantation, but postoperative diabetes mellitus had no influence on the survival rate of the patients.

 

Key words: Tissue Engineering, Kidney Transplantation, Blood Glucose, Diabetes Mellitus

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