Ekamol Tantisattamo
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, USA
Title: Hypertension after kidney transplantation: Multifactorial etiologies and transplant outcomes
Biography
Biography: Ekamol Tantisattamo
Abstract
Hypertension is one of the most common causes of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality worldwide. Several factors contribute to the development of hypertension. Similar to non-transplant population, hypertension remains high prevalence in kidney transplant recipients. Among kidney transplant recipients with pre-transplant hypertesion, the majority of them still continue to be hypertensive after successful kidney transplantation; however, some kidney transplant recipients become normotensive. Etiology of hypertension is difficulty to determined and it is likely multifactorial including genetic and acquired conditions. Kidney is thought to be one contributing factor of hypertension and this may represent in the form of genetic kidney disease. Native nephrectomy in non-transplant patient is one possible way to manage uncontrolled hypertension. Our previous data demonstrated that kidney transplant recipients who received living-unrelated renal transplantation appeared to have lower prevalence of post-transplant hypertension compared to the recipients receiving living-related renal transplantation. For deceased donor renal transplantation, hypertensive patients receiving kidney transplantation from the same donor (mated kidney transplantation) seemed to convert to normotensive or remain hypertensive at the same direction. This may implies a potential role of genetic kidney diseases. In addition to potential genetic causes of post-transplantation hypertension, other treditional non-genetic risk factors of post-transplant hypertension are still important since these may be reversible or preventable conditions. These common conditions or diseases include obesity. Since post-transplant hypertension is high prevalent and crucial for kidney transplant outcomes both renal allograft and patient survivals, identifing the causes of post-transplant hypertension should lead to strategies for preventing post-transplant hypertension and mitigate poor kidney transplant outcomes.