Relationship between thyroid hormones and renal function after kidney transplantation / 中华器官移植杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective Monitoring the thyroid hormone levels in patients before and after renal transplantation to realize the relationship between thyroid hormones and renal function.Methods Fifty-seven patients were subdivided into stabled graft function group (50 cases) and delayed graft function (DGF) group (7 cases).Thirty healthy men served as control group.Serum triiodothyronine (T3),thyroxine (T4),thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and serum creatinine (Scr) were determined respectably before transplantation and on different days after transplantation.Correlations between thyroid hormones and Scr at 10th day after transplantation were analyzed.Results Serum T3 and T4 levels before transplantation in the two groups were significantly lower than those in the control group (P＜0.01).These four parameters levels had no significant difference between stabled graft function group and DGF group (P＞0.05).In stabled graft function groupT3 level was decreased obviously by 30％ in the 1st day after transplantation,which was higher than the others,elevated at the 1st week post-transplantation,reached the normal range.at the 2nd week post-operation,and higher than pre-transplantation (P ＜ 0.01) at 3rd week; T4 revealed a decrease trend after transplantation and was elevated at 10th day post-transplantation,returned to the pre-transplantation level at 3rd week; TSH had slight decrease after operation,and had no significant difference among every period in comparing with pre-transplantation; Scr revealed a decrease trend continuously and returned to the normal level at the 7th day post-transplantation.In DGF group,Hormones levels were obviously decreased as compared with stabled graft function group; T3 reached the normal range at the 3rd week post-transplantation,whereas T4 returned to pre-transplantation levels at the 30th day; TSH had a significant decrease at the 5th day,and began to increase at the 10th day post-operation; Scr retuned to the normal range at the 30th day post-operation.The correlation coefficients between Scr and T3,T4 were 0.546 and 0.423 respectively.Conclusion There is a significant correlation between thyroid hormones and renal function (T3,T4).Monitoring the thyroid hormones,specially T3,can diagnose renal function change.