TAN LI PING, MOHAN YASHINI, LIM SOO KUN, NG KOK PENG, KENG TEE CHAU, KONG WAI YEW, WONG CHEW MING, WA HAFIZ, WONG MUN HOE, LIM LI HAN, JALALONMUHALI MAISARAH University of Malaya Medical Center Introduction: Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death among kidney patients. Screening for cardiovascular disease is therefore thought to be an essential step in the evaluation of the kidney transplant recipient. However, controversy exists

regarding the optimal assessment technique. The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology advise no preoperative cardiac evaluation if the patient has a good functional status. The American Society of Nephrology on the other hand, recommends myocardial perfusion imaging as part of the evaluation. Selleck NVP-LDE225 CCI-779 ic50 In Malaysia, there is currently no consensus addressing this issue. We conducted a retrospective review of cardiac assessment modalities among potential kidney transplant recipients in our hospital. Methods: All living donor kidney transplant recipients who underwent a kidney transplant

evaluation in our center from 2001 to 2013 were eligible for inclusion. Basic demographic data was collected. Key variables of interest were history of ischemic heart disease, presence of heart failure, stroke, diabetes mellitus. Information regarding methods of cardiac evaluation and results were obtained. Data was analyzed with SPSS v16.0. Results: 180 C1GALT1 patients

were identified, however due to missing data only 68 patients were included in the study. 66.2% were male. Mean age was 35.8 yrs (S.D 9.69). 11.8% had diabetes mellitus and 7.4% had a history of ischemic heart disease. All patients had a screening ECG done of which 85.3% were normal while the remaining had mild abnormalities. 66 (97.1%) patients had a stress ECG which was read as normal in 86.8%. The remainder had inconclusive results. 13 patients underwent coronary angiogram of which 23% (n = 3) had significant coronary stenosis requiring PCI. All of those who required PCI had history of ischemic heart disease. Conclusion: In our single center cohort of potential kidney transplant recipients, only 0.04% required PCI for cardiac optimaization, all of whom were among patients with preexisting ischemic heart disease. Due to cost constraints, more advanced techniques for cardiac evaluation like myocardial perfusion imaging of dobutamine stress echocardiograms were not done. But in our limited sample of mostly non diabetic patients; basic cardiac evaluation including screening ECG and stress ECG appeared to be sufficient. Further follow up of post operative outcomes would be important to support this. AN GUN-HEE, YU JI HYUN, HWANG SEUN DEUK, CHUNG BYUNG HA, PARK CHEOL WHEE, YANG CHUN WOO, KIM YONG-SOO, CHOI BUM SOON Transplant Research Center, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St.