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Renal dysfunction (RD) in heart transplant (HT) patients is often evaluated solely in terms of serum creatinine (SCr). In a cross-sectional, 14-center study of 1062 stable adult HT patients aged 59.1?��?12.5?yr (82.3% men), RD was graded as absent-or-mild (AoM), moderate, or severe (this last including dialysis and kidney graft) by two classifications: SCr-RD (SCr cutoffs http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Lapatinib-Ditosylate.html 1.6 and 2.5?mg/dL) and eGFR-RD (eGFR cutoffs 60 and 30?mL/min/1.73?m2). SCr-RD was AoM in 68.5% of patients, moderate in 24.9%, and severe in 6.7%; eGFR-RD, AoM in 38.6%, moderate in 52.2%, severe in 9.2%. Among patients evaluated 9.5?yr post-HT (the periods defined by time-since-transplant quartiles), AoM/moderate/severe RD prevalences were 9.5, SCr-RD 58/32/10%, eGFR-RD 32/52/16%. The prevalence of severe RD increases with time since transplant. If the usual CKD stages are appropriate for HT patients, the need for less nephrotoxic immunosuppressants and other renoprotective measures is greater than is suggested by direct SCr-based grading, which should be abandoned as excessively insensitive. ""The ImmuKnow assay measures cell-mediated immunity by quantifying ATP release from CD4+ T-cells in peripheral blood. Herein, we hypothesized that this assay could predict complications associated with over-/under-immunosuppression in patients with kidney transplant (KT). Sixty-seven patients undergoing KT were recruited prospectively and had ATP levels measured preoperatively, and at specified intervals over two?months. Clinicians were blinded to ATP levels. Clinical events including rejection and infection/cancer were documented with a median follow-up of 21?months. Parameters including absolute ATP levels and changes in ATP patterns (slopes, delta) were analyzed. Association between ATP parameters and clinical outcomes was compared using the likelihood-ratio test and Kaplan�CMeier curves. Absolute ATP values postoperatively had poor predictive value with regard to rejection or infection/malignancy. As well, changes in ATP values were poorly associated with complications. Importantly, patients with pre-transplant ATP values 300?ng/mL (p?