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What are your post kidney transplant lab and follow-up schedules?
Transplants | Last Active: Aug 11, 2022 | Replies (17)Comment receiving replies
Regarding my routine labs.
My transplant team writes me a "Standing Lab Order" each year as part of my annual evaluation. They include a message to me about the lab schedule. My local PCP has to rewrite the lab order because it was written out of state. I keep a copy filed at my PCP's office and at the local lab where I have my routine labs drawn. My Mayo transplant nurse also keeps me supplied with the Prograf Kits. I like this management because it puts me in charge of my labs. If I need an extra lab drawn, I can readily go without the need to contact my PCP. He is happy to support Mayo's care plan.
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Rosemary,
I like the way Mayo in Rochester runs the routine labs for patients out of state. At Mayo Az, they do not give us a standing order nor do we get a Prograf kit for routine labs. The local neph is in charge of ordering the labs and the schedule of lab draws. Mayo Az will only intervene if hubby develops something like CMV, BKV, some illness related to transplant. So they are currently managing him because he got CMV but is resolving. So I fully expect them to turn over management of hubby to his local neph any day now. I have previously asked the nurse coordinator if she would give us a standing lab order long term but she said they do not do that. They have guidelines for the rountine lab schedule but it's really up to the managing doctor what he wants to do. I'm going to bring it up again and ask if they would give me a lab order that I can take to the local neph and say to him this is what Mayo recommends. I hope he agrees to it.