[CT assessment in patients candidates for kidney transplantation: Benefits and indications]. 2022

Charlotte Carraut, and Quentin Ea, and Mathieu Lederlin, and Cécile Vigneau
Centre hospitalier Bretagne Atlantique, 20, boulevard du Général Maurice Guillaudot, 56000 Vannes, France. Electronic address: charlotte.carraut@ch-bretagne-atlantique.fr.

BACKGROUND Screening for neoplasms and vascular calcifications is a key step before kidney transplantation. American, European and French recommendations diverge on the imaging assessment to be carried out in this context. METHODS We carried out a retrospective single-center study including patients who underwent imaging for kidney transplantation between the 01/01/2011 and the 12/31/2018. The neoplastic pathologies and vascular calcifications discovered on this assessment were noted. RESULTS We included 579 patients: 293 performed a thoracic CT scan, 579 an abdominopelvic CT scan. The imaging work-up revealed 5 malignant thoracic tumors, 14 malignant abdominal tumors and 140 significant calcifications of the external iliac axes. All malignant chest tumors were found in patients with estimated smoking greater than or equal to 30 PY. CONCLUSIONS Like the American recommendations, our results are in favor of performing a chest computed tomography in patients with smoking greater than or equal to 30 PY. Contrary to American and European recommendations, our results are in favor of performing an abdominopelvic tomodensitometry in all patients. CONCLUSIONS Screening for vascular calcifications and neoplasms in kidney transplant candidates should include routine abdominopelvic CT and chest CT for smoking greater than or equal to 30 PY.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D009369 Neoplasms New abnormal growth of tissue. Malignant neoplasms show a greater degree of anaplasia and have the properties of invasion and metastasis, compared to benign neoplasms. Benign Neoplasm,Cancer,Malignant Neoplasm,Tumor,Tumors,Benign Neoplasms,Malignancy,Malignant Neoplasms,Neoplasia,Neoplasm,Neoplasms, Benign,Cancers,Malignancies,Neoplasias,Neoplasm, Benign,Neoplasm, Malignant,Neoplasms, Malignant
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D012189 Retrospective Studies Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons. Retrospective Study,Studies, Retrospective,Study, Retrospective
D014057 Tomography, X-Ray Computed Tomography using x-ray transmission and a computer algorithm to reconstruct the image. CAT Scan, X-Ray,CT Scan, X-Ray,Cine-CT,Computerized Tomography, X-Ray,Electron Beam Computed Tomography,Tomodensitometry,Tomography, Transmission Computed,X-Ray Tomography, Computed,CAT Scan, X Ray,CT X Ray,Computed Tomography, X-Ray,Computed X Ray Tomography,Computerized Tomography, X Ray,Electron Beam Tomography,Tomography, X Ray Computed,Tomography, X-Ray Computer Assisted,Tomography, X-Ray Computerized,Tomography, X-Ray Computerized Axial,Tomography, Xray Computed,X Ray Computerized Tomography,X Ray Tomography, Computed,X-Ray Computer Assisted Tomography,X-Ray Computerized Axial Tomography,Beam Tomography, Electron,CAT Scans, X-Ray,CT Scan, X Ray,CT Scans, X-Ray,CT X Rays,Cine CT,Computed Tomography, Transmission,Computed Tomography, X Ray,Computed Tomography, Xray,Computed X-Ray Tomography,Scan, X-Ray CAT,Scan, X-Ray CT,Scans, X-Ray CAT,Scans, X-Ray CT,Tomographies, Computed X-Ray,Tomography, Computed X-Ray,Tomography, Electron Beam,Tomography, X Ray Computer Assisted,Tomography, X Ray Computerized,Tomography, X Ray Computerized Axial,Transmission Computed Tomography,X Ray Computer Assisted Tomography,X Ray Computerized Axial Tomography,X Ray, CT,X Rays, CT,X-Ray CAT Scan,X-Ray CAT Scans,X-Ray CT Scan,X-Ray CT Scans,X-Ray Computed Tomography,X-Ray Computerized Tomography,Xray Computed Tomography
D016030 Kidney Transplantation The transference of a kidney from one human or animal to another. Grafting, Kidney,Renal Transplantation,Transplantation, Kidney,Transplantation, Renal,Kidney Grafting,Kidney Transplantations,Renal Transplantations,Transplantations, Kidney,Transplantations, Renal
D061205 Vascular Calcification Deposition of calcium into the blood vessel structures. Excessive calcification of the vessels is associated with ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES formation particularly after MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (see MONCKEBERG MEDIAL CALCIFIC SCLEROSIS) and chronic kidney diseases which in turn increase VASCULAR STIFFNESS. Vascular Calcinosis,Calcification, Vascular,Calcinosis, Vascular,Vascular Calcifications,Vascular Calcinoses

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