The Reasons of Renal Transplant Recipients’ Admission to the Emergency Department; a Case Series Study

• Main Authors: Erdal Uysal, Mehmet Dokur, Hasan Bakir, Mehmet Ali Ikidag, Turkay Kirdak, Hatem Kazimoglu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2016-08-01
• Series: Emergency
• Subjects: Kidney transplantation; patient readmission; emergency service, hospital; epidemiologic studies
• Online Access: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/emergency/article/view/10840

<p><strong>Introduction:</strong>  Renal transplantation are admitted to emergency department (ED) more than normal population. The present brief report aimed to determine the reasons of renal transplant patients’ ED visits.</p><p><strong>Methods:</strong> This retrospective case series study analyzed the reasons of renal transplant recipients’ admission to one ED between 2011 and 2014. The patient data were collected via a checklist and presented using descriptive statistics tools.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>41 patients with the mean age of 40.63 ± 10.95 years were studied (60.9% male). The most common ED presenting complaints were fever (36.6%) and abdominal pain (26.8%). Infections were the most common final diagnosis (68.3%). Among non-infectious causes, the most common was acute renal failure (9.7 %). 73.2% of the patients were hospitalized and no cases of graft loss and mortality were seen.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The most common reason for ED admission was fever, and infections were the most common diagnosis. Acute gastroenteritis being the most frequent infection and among non-infectious problems, acute renal failure was the most frequent one. </p>