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- Title
Perioperative fluid management in renal transplantation: a narrative review of the literature.
- Authors
Schnuelle, Peter; Johannes van der Woude, Fokko
- Abstract
Adequate volume maintenance is essential to prevent acute renal failure during major surgery or to ensure graft function after renal transplantation. The various recommendations on the optimum fluid therapy are based, at best, on sparse evidence only from observational studies. This article reviews the literature on perioperative fluid management in renal transplantation. Crystalloid solutions not exerting any specific side-effects are the first choice for volume replacement in kidney transplantation. The use of colloids should be restricted to patients with severe intravascular volume deficits necessitating high volume restoration. The routine application of albumin, dopamine, and high dose diuretics is no longer warranted. Mannitol given immediately before removal of the vessel clamps reduces the requirement of post-transplant dialysis, but has no effects on graft function in the long term. There is insufficient evidence on the best use of dialysis, but it seems peritoneal dialysis pretransplant is associated with less delayed graft function, whereas the preference of dialysis post-transplant is not yet well-founded. This review article should provide better guidance for fluid management in kidney transplantation until best-evidence guidelines can be established based upon more research.
- Subjects
KIDNEY transplantation; ACUTE kidney failure; COLLOIDS; ALBUMINS; DIALYSIS (Chemistry)
- Publication
Transplant International, 2006, Vol 19, Issue 12, p947
- ISSN
0934-0874
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1432-2277.2006.00356.x