Acute right heart failure caused by tacrolimus after renal transplantation: Serial observation by speckle tracking and Doppler echocardiography

  • Echocardiography. 2017 Nov;34(11):1730-1732. doi: 10.1111/echo.13716.
Sachiyo Igata  1 ,  Nicholas Wettersten  1 ,  Darrin J Wong  1 ,  Amin Sabet  1 ,  Anthony N DeMaria  1
Affiliations
  • 1. Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of California San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, La Jolla, CA, USA.
PMID: 29178293 DOI: 10.1111/echo.13716
Abstract

Tacrolimus is an immunosuppressive agent well known to be capable of producing renal impairment. Acute Renal Failure with right Heart Failure caused by tacrolimus is rarely described. We report the findings of one such case in which tacrolimus caused acute Renal Failure with severe tricuspid regurgitation and right ventricular failure documented by echocardiography.

Keywords
kidney transplantation; right heart volume overload; tacrolimus.