Journal article

Patients with medical risk factors for chronic kidney disease are at increased risk of renal impairment despite the use of nephron-sparing surgery

P Satasivam, F Reeves, K Rao, Z Ivey, M Basto, M Yip, H Roth, J Grummet, J Goad, D Moon, D Murphy, S Appu, N Lawrentschuk, D Bolton, J Kearsley, A Costello, M Frydenberg

BJU International | Published : 2015

Abstract

Objective To determine whether patients with normal preoperative renal function, but who possess medical risk factors for chronic kidney disease (CKD), experience poorer renal function after partial nephrectomy (PN) for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) compared with those without risk factors. Patients and Methods The effects of age, hypertension (HTN) and diabetes mellitus (DM) on estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) were investigated in 488 consecutive operations for RCC performed during 2005-2012 at six Australian tertiary referral centres; 156 patients underwent PN and 332 patients underwent radical nephrectomy (RN). We used chi-squared test and binary logistic regression to analyse new..

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