Open AccessSuccessful living donor kidney transplantation in a patient with prothrombin gene mutation: Case report and literature review
Author(s) -
Edward Shen,
Tadahiro Uemura,
Zakiyah Kadry,
Subramanian Sathishkumar
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of anaesthesiology-clinical pharmacology/journal of anaesthesiology clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2231-2730
pISSN - 0970-9185
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9185.125718
Subject(s) - medicine , mutation , complication , kidney transplantation , transplantation , gene mutation , gene , surgery , genetics , biology
We present a patient with known prothrombin gene mutation and a history of prior vascular events, who underwent living donor kidney transplantation. Given the presumed elevated risk of complication from known prothrombin mutation, clinical management was directed towards optimizing living donor allograft function.