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ReviewCurrent diabetes reports2015

Management of the hospitalized transplant patient.

Brian Boerner, Vijay Shivaswamy, Whitney Goldner, Jennifer Larsen

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Review in Current diabetes reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Post-Liver Transplantation Diabetes Mellitus: A Review of Relevance and Approach to Treatment.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Brian BoernerDivision of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, UNMC and VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System, Omaha, NE, 68105, USA.
Vijay Shivaswamy
Whitney Goldner
Jennifer Larsen

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Significant hyperglycemia is commonly observed immediately after solid organ and bone marrow transplant as well as with subsequent hospitalizations. Surgery and procedures are well known to cause pain and stress leading to secretion of cytokines and other hormones known to aggravate insulin action. Immunosuppression required for transplant and preexisting risk are also major factors. Glucose control improves outcomes for all hospitalized patients, including transplant patients, but is often more challenging to achieve because of frequent and sometimes unpredictable changes in immunosuppression doses, renal function, and nutrition. As a result, risk of hypoglycemia can be greater in this patient group when trying to achieve glucose control goals for hospitalized patients. Key to successful management of hyperglycemia is regular communication between the members of the care team as well as anticipating and rapidly implementing a new treatment paradigm in response to changes in immunosuppression, nutrition, renal function, or evidence of changing insulin resistance.

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HospitalizationPostoperative CareTransplantationBlood GlucoseDiabetes MellitusHumansRisk FactorsBlood Glucose

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PMID25721247
PMCPMC4342522

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