Home Based Monitoring of Kidney Transplants Utilizing Capillary Microsamples
Home Based Monitoring of Kidney Transplants Utilizing Capillary Microsamples
Renal transplant recipients are followed as out patients at the transplant center for about 8 weeks after surgery. Between 1-2 weeks after surgery, 50 standard immunological patients will be randomized (1:1) to either follow standard of care (SOC) or having every second poli clinical visit without entering the hospital HBM; Home Based Monitoring). They are to take a capillary finger-prick blood sample themselves, send it to the laboratory for analysis and then they will get a telecom follow-up that day from their transplant physician. Outcome is no difference with regards to being able to follow the randomized follow-up procedure.
Renal transplant recipients are followed as out patients at the transplant center for about 8 weeks after surgery. Between 1-2 weeks after surgery, 50 standard immunological patients (i.e. first, kidney (only) transplants, no donors specific antibodies (DSA), panel reactive antibodies (PRA), ABO blood type compatible transplant) will be randomized (1:1) to either follow standard of care (SOC) or having every second poli clinical visit without entering the hospital HBM; Home Based Monitoring). They are to take a capillary finger-prick blood sample themselves and send it to the laboratory for analysis (creatinine, hemoglobin, tacrolimus and mycophenolate) and then they will get a telecom follow-up that day from their transplant physician. Outcome is no difference with regards to being able to follow the randomized follow-up procedure without having acute rejection episodes and no need for extra ou-patients visits for any reason. End of study is week 7-8 after transplantation.
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