Overweight Kidney Transplant Recipients Are at Risk of Being Overdosed Following Standard Bodyweight-Based Tacrolimus Starting Dose

BACKGROUND: Bodyweight-based dosing of tacrolimus (Tac) is considered standard care, even though the available evidence is thin. An increasing proportion of transplant recipients is overweight, prompting the question if the starting dose should always be based on bodyweight. METHODS: For this analys...

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Autores principales: Andrews, Louise M., de Winter, Brenda C.M., Tang, Jiang-Tao, Shuker, Nauras, Bouamar, Rachida, van Schaik, Ron H.N., Koch, Birgit C.P., van Gelder, Teun, Hesselink, Dennis A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2017
Materias:
Pharmacology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5367746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28361113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/TXD.0000000000000644

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