Pneumococcal Vaccination in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Kidney Transplant Recipients

  • Tariq Bhat Department of Medicine SKIMS Medical College, Bemina.
  • Muzaffar Wani Department of Nephrology, SKIMS Soura.
  • Imtiyaz Ahmad Wani Department of Nephrology, SKIMS Soura
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33883/jms.v20i2.182
Keywords: CKD

Abstract

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) denotes structural and/or functional impairment of kidneys that persists for more than three months (1). CKD is arbitrarily divided into stages 1 to 5 based on the level of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), with invariable need for dialysis and transplantation in stage 5. In poorer regions of world including Kashmir not many patients live long enough to go to later stages of CKD as they eventually die in earlier stages (3/4) due to cardiovascular diseases and infections 2,3. JMS 2017;20(2):111-114

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Author Biographies

Tariq Bhat, Department of Medicine SKIMS Medical College, Bemina.

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

 

Muzaffar Wani, Department of Nephrology, SKIMS Soura.

D.M, Associate Professor

Imtiyaz Ahmad Wani, Department of Nephrology, SKIMS Soura

D.M , Additional Professor,

Published
2017-12-09
How to Cite
1.
Bhat T, Wani M, Wani I. Pneumococcal Vaccination in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Kidney Transplant Recipients. jms [Internet]. 2017Dec.9 [cited 2026Oct.3];20(2):111-4. Available from: https://old.jmsskims.org/index.php/jms/article/view/182
Issue
Vol 20 No 2 (2017): July-December
Section
Practice Point