Ocular complications in live-related renal transplant recipients: a single-centre study
Renal transplantation is considered to be the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage kidney failure. While transplantation has a high success rate, there are a number of associated challenges which include those related to the primary disease, transplant procedure as well as medications th...
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Renal transplantation is considered to be the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage kidney failure. While transplantation has a high success rate, there are a number of associated challenges which include those related to the primary disease, transplant procedure as well as medications that are necessary to take after transplantation. Steroids, for instance, have been reported to lead to ocular complications in patients who have undergone renal transplantation in other parts of the world. This retrospective case series reports the pattern of ocular complications among patients who underwent renal transplant since the inception of ophthalmology clinic at a dialysis and transplant centre in Karachi, Pakistan.
The case series corroborates the findings of other similar studies from around the world, with cataract being the most common occurrence in this cohort. A unique finding in Pakistani setup includes the high prevalence of night blindness,
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| spelling | doaj.art-57bca151ab244b73a5b6a595b32b5ec02023-05-25T04:20:23ZengPakistan Medical AssociationJournal of the Pakistan Medical Association0030-99822023-03-0173410.47391/JPMA.6420Ocular complications in live-related renal transplant recipients: a single-centre studyFatema Ali Lanewala0Akhtar Jamal Khan1Department of Ophthalmology, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, PakistanDepartment of Ophthalmology, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan Renal transplantation is considered to be the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage kidney failure. While transplantation has a high success rate, there are a number of associated challenges which include those related to the primary disease, transplant procedure as well as medications that are necessary to take after transplantation. Steroids, for instance, have been reported to lead to ocular complications in patients who have undergone renal transplantation in other parts of the world. This retrospective case series reports the pattern of ocular complications among patients who underwent renal transplant since the inception of ophthalmology clinic at a dialysis and transplant centre in Karachi, Pakistan. The case series corroborates the findings of other similar studies from around the world, with cataract being the most common occurrence in this cohort. A unique finding in Pakistani setup includes the high prevalence of night blindness, ---Continue https://www.ojs.jpma.org.pk/index.php/public_html/article/view/6420 |
| spellingShingle | Fatema Ali Lanewala Akhtar Jamal Khan Ocular complications in live-related renal transplant recipients: a single-centre study Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association |
| title | Ocular complications in live-related renal transplant recipients: a single-centre study |
| title_full | Ocular complications in live-related renal transplant recipients: a single-centre study |
| title_fullStr | Ocular complications in live-related renal transplant recipients: a single-centre study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ocular complications in live-related renal transplant recipients: a single-centre study |
| title_short | Ocular complications in live-related renal transplant recipients: a single-centre study |
| title_sort | ocular complications in live related renal transplant recipients a single centre study |
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