Received March 12, 2007
Accepted on June 14, 2007
Routine Use of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Potential Living Kidney Donors
Elizabeth S. Ommen 1,
Bernd Schröppel ,
Jin-Yon Kim ,
Gabrielle Gaspard ,
Enver Akalin ,
Graciella de Boccardo ,
Vinita Sehgal ,
Michael Lipkowitz ,
and
Barbara Murphy
Division of Nephrology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York
1 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: elizabeth.ommen{at}mssm.edu.
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Abstract |
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Background and Objectives: Most transplant centers exclude prospective living kidney donors with hypertension from donation. Centers routinely identify hypertension using BP measured in the clinic, but it is not clear that clinic BP accurately detects the presence or absence of hypertension in potential donors. We therefore conducted a prospective study to determine the impact of routine ambulatory BP monitoring on diagnosis of hypertension in potential donors and the value of other baseline characteristics in predicting ambulatory BP results.
