Lipoproetin pattern in patients with chronic renal failure and those who had renal transplantation

Abstract EN

Background : Vascular disease is common in patients with chronic renal failure as well as in patients with renal transplantation.

It is a common cause of death in these patients.

One possible factor for this increased incidence of vascular disease is hyperlipidaemia that frequently occurs in these patients.

Purpose : To determine the lipoprotein pattern in patients with chronic renal failure and patients who had renal transplantation in our community.

Methods : 70 patients, age ranging between 10-75 years (mean value of 42.7) were studied.

They were 21 pre-dialysis patients, 42 dialyzed patients (20 peritoneal dialysis and 22 Haemodialysis, and 15 patients following renal transplantation.

Fasting blood Cholesterol, triglyceride, high and low density lipoprotein were determined.

Results: 2 patients of the pre-dialysis group had high cholesterol levels, while 6 patients had high triglyceride levels and 7 patients had high serum HDL levels.

Only 9 patients had ischaemic changes on E.

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3 (7.3 %) patients on dialysis group had high cholesterol levels, 11.9 % had high triglyceride levels.

24 patients of the dialysis group had ischaemic changes in E.

C.

G.

7 transplant patients had high serum triglyceride levels and only two have elevated LDL.