The association of preoperative cardiac stress testing with 30-day death and myocardial infarction among patients undergoing kidney transplantation.

BACKGROUND:Although periodic cardiac stress testing is commonly used to screen patients on the waiting list for kidney transplantation for ischemic heart disease, there is little evidence to support this practice. We hypothesized that cardiac stress testing in the 18 months prior to kidney transplan...

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Main Authors: Tim Dunn, Mohammed J Saeed, Adam Shpigel, Eric Novak, Tarek Alhamad, Dustin Stwalley, Michael W Rich, David L Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211161