Source: DGNews  |  Posted 9 years ago

By Alison Palkhivala

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK -- July 17, 2002 -- The degree of atherosclerosis in the iliac artery helps predict outcome in kidney recipients.

Serum lipid levels, however, do not appear to help predict the degree of atherosclerosis present in the iliac artery, according to investigators led by Dr. Ozgur Basaran, from the department of general surgery and transplantation at Baskent University Faculty of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey.

The findings were presented here July 17 at the 39th annual Congress of the European Renal Association - European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA).

Biopsies of recipient iliac arteries and graft renal arteries were collected from patients undergoing renal transplantation. Overall, they assessed the results of 183 consecutive living-related and 51 cadaverous renal transplantations.

After evaluating the biopsy specimens, Dr. Basaran