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Apixaban Use Before Kidney Transplantation: Is Reversal Necessary?

Key takeaways

This paper asks whether people taking the blood thinner apixaban (Eliquis) need a drug to undo it before getting a kidney transplant. No abstract was available, so we cannot report what it found or how many patients it included. Studies on this question usually look back at past patients. That kind of study shows a link, not proof of cause.

Who did this work

Cotiguala L (Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital) · Przybylski A (Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital) · Linberger L (Rush University Medical Center) · Brokhof M (Rush University Medical Center) · Kenyon N (Rush University Medical Center) · Joyce C (Loyola University Medical Center) · Dierker M (Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital) · Ferguson K (Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital) · Rech M (Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital) · Trotter C (Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital) · Aguirre O (Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital) · Lopez‐Soler R (Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital)

Source

Paper · Europe PMC, CKD · 2026-09-14
https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/PMC13574925