High Creatinine Levels After Kidney Transplant
Patient who has accepted kidney transplant often find his creatinine level will elevate again. While high creatinine is often a dangerous sign of patient’s kidney condition, so is it dangerous for patient with kidney transplant to have high creatinine again?
High creatinine often indicates severe damage in patient’s kidney, so if kidney transplant patient has high creatinine again, it may be a indication of patient’s condition relapsing.
On the other hand, creatinine can be affected by many factors. And in these conditions, patient’s high creatinine does not indicate the relapse of patient’s kidney disease.
1.Infection: as we know, kidney transplant patient’s immunity is very weak, so it is easy for patient to get infected, like cold, which is a common infection to us, needless to say kidney transplant patient. While any infection can aggravate patient’s condition obviously, which can lead to patient has high creatinine.
2.Organ rejection: the transplanted kidneys will always be rejected by patient’s body, and patient will always need to take medicines to control this condition. While this condition is also very likely to reduce patient’s kidney function, and cause patient to have high creatinine.
3.Other factors: patient’s creatinine may be affected by many other factors like diet, activity level, etc. And if new detection reagent is used in checking patient’s creatinine, patient is very likely to have higher creatinine, and it is normal that patient has about 15% fluctuation.
Thereby, to judge whether patient’s high creatinine is caused by the relapse of his kidney disease, patient should consider many aspects, and only when all factors are excluded, we can know whether patient’s kidney disease has relapsed.
In the end, if you have any trouble in dealing with kidney transplant, you can email us your question and your test report, and we are glad to help you.
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