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: Received: 17 July 2023 / Approved: 17 July 2023 / Online: 18 July 2023 (13:47:51 CEST)
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Kędzierska-Kapuza, K.; Niewiński, G.; Durlik, M.; Wierzba, W.; Szczuko, M. Nutritional Status of Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Candidates - Experience of the One Polish Transplant Center (Observational Study). Preprints2023, 2023071137. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1137.v1
Kędzierska-Kapuza, K.; Niewiński, G.; Durlik, M.; Wierzba, W.; Szczuko, M. Nutritional Status of Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Candidates - Experience of the One Polish Transplant Center (Observational Study). Preprints 2023, 2023071137. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1137.v1
Kędzierska-Kapuza, K.; Niewiński, G.; Durlik, M.; Wierzba, W.; Szczuko, M. Nutritional Status of Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Candidates - Experience of the One Polish Transplant Center (Observational Study). Preprints2023, 2023071137. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1137.v1
APA Style
Kędzierska-Kapuza, K., Niewiński, G., Durlik, M., Wierzba, W., & Szczuko, M. (2023). Nutritional Status of Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Candidates - Experience of the One Polish Transplant Center (Observational Study). Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1137.v1
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Kędzierska-Kapuza, K., Waldemar Wierzba and Małgorzata Szczuko. 2023 "Nutritional Status of Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Candidates - Experience of the One Polish Transplant Center (Observational Study)" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1137.v1
Abstract
Pancreas transplantation is a high-risk operation that requires significant skill and expertise from the surgeons and the postoperative care team. Prior to candidate qualification, all contraindications to this procedure must be excluded. The use of screening tools and nutritional assessment aims to emphasize the importance of accurately diagnosing nutritional status in order to implement early nutritional interventions and reduce complications associated with malnutrition. This plays a crucial role in improving postoperative outcomes for patients undergoing pancreas and/or kidney transplantation.
Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze the parameters of nutritional status in patients eligible for kidney transplantation and kidney with pancreas transplantation.
Methods: The study analyzed the database of hospitalized patients in our Center from 2020 to 2023 to identify preoperative parameters of nutritional status in patients eligible for kidney transplantation (Ktx) and kidney with pancreas transplantation (SPKTx).
Participants: A total of 59 patients participated in the study, who were candidates for kidney transplantation (23, including 11 females and 12 males) or kidney with pancreas transplantation (36, including 24 females and 12 males).
Parameters examined included: Onoder's Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNIO), Nutrition Risk Index (NRI), ideal body weight (IBW) calculated using the Lorenz formula, and the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR). All patients admitted to the clinic underwent the NRS-2002 clinical assessment scale for nutritional status.
Results: Upon analyzing the obtained results, it was found that BMI was not a good differentiating parameter for the studied groups. The PNIO index also insufficiently differentiated the studied groups, and similarly, the NRI index was a weak differentiating parameter. The NRS-2002 index and albumin level were the best indicators of differences between the groups. In the group of transplantation candidates, several parameters indicated that patients in the Ktx group (kidney transplantation candidates) had better nutritional status than SPKtx candidates (kidney with pancreas transplantation candidates), despite the former group being older patients.
Conclusion: It seems that more effort should be made to start a proper nutrition plan for SPKTx (and especially peritoneal dialysis) patients. Regular assessment of nutrition status should be performed. SPKtx patients in the perioperative period should receive parenteral nutrition and, as soon as their general condition allows it, enteral nutrition, taking into account the caloric and protein needs
Medicine and Pharmacology, Dietetics and Nutrition
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