Vitamin D deficiency and infection risk in kidney transplant recipients: A single-center cohort study.

Background: Recent studies have reported an increased susceptibility to infection among vitamin D-deficient kidney transplant (KT) recipients, although methodological concerns remain.

Methods: Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels were measured in 246 KT recipients at post-transplant months 1, 3, 6 and 12. Vitamin D status was analysed in terms of deficiency (Endocrine Society [<20 ng/mL] and Institute of Medicine [IoM, <12 ng/mL] criteria) and as a continuous variable.

[Evaluation of the results obtained by the Coagucheck S coagulometer in the control of the oral anticoagulant treatment].

Background And Objective: Our purpose was to evaluate the control of oral anticoagulant treatment (OAT) in capillary blood by the Coagucheck S System.

Patients And Method: Descriptive cross-sectional study. 155 patients under treatment with oral anticoagulants were studied.