Home Based Monitoring of Kidney Transplants Utilizing Capillary Microsamples
Renal transplant recipients are followed as out patients at the transplant center for about 8 weeks after surgery. Between 1-2 weeks after surgery, 50 standard immunological patients will be randomized (1:1) to either follow standard of care (SOC) or having every second poli clinical visit without entering the hospital HBM; Home Based Monitoring). They are to take a capillary finger-prick blood sample themselves, send it to the laboratory for analysis and then they will get a telecom follow-up that day from their transplant physician. Outcome is no difference with regards to being able to follow the randomized follow-up procedure.
• Kidney only transplant
• Immunosuppressive therapy With at least one of; tacrolimus, cyclosporine, everolimus, sirolimus, mycophenolate
• Standard immunological risk; no DSA, no PRA, not ABO-incompatible transplant
• Age above 18 years
• Followed at Oslo University Hospital-Rikshospitalet transplant center
• Written informed consent