Cardiovascular Risk Assessment Scoring System for the Determination of Cardiovascular Mortality in Renal Transplant Patients

It is well known that the greatest risk for mortality post–renal transplant is cardiovascular death. We compared a modified cardiac risk assessment system among renal transplant patients who subsequently died versus the group that survived. There was a good correlation between the low, medium, and high scores with survival. The deceased group had significantly greater cardiovascular scores than case controls.