Is HRQOL in dialysis associated with patient survival or graft function after kidney transplantation?
HRQOL measured in dialysis patients was associated with survival and graft function after RTX. These findings may be useful in clinical pretransplant evaluations. Improvements in some of the kidney-specific HRQOL domains from dialysis to RTX were associated with lower mortality. Prospective and interventional studies are warranted.
In this study, (99)Tc-MDP bone imaging does not provide an added diagnostic value for bone involvement over (18)F-FDG-PET/CT.