The guidelines issued by Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) released in 2009 that are intended for monitoring, management, and treatment of kidney transplant recipients. These guidelines should help practitioners to care for adults and children after kidney transplantation. After the first successful kidney transplantation in the year 1954, there has been an exponential increase in the kidney transplantation recipients (KTRs).
However, due to the conflicting and complex outcomes noted during the clinical trials and observational studies, it is necessary that physicians get to refer new, comprehensive, evidence-based clinical practice guideline. Hence, KDIGO has designed a new guideline for caring for KTRs. The guideline mainly includes recommendations related to following concerns, Induction Therapy: Combination of immunosuppressive medications before and after the…
