Neurological disorders and immunosuppression in kidney transplant patients. Preliminary study

Background: Neurological disorders in kidney transplant patients may be related to several factors, including high toxicity to the use of immunosuppressive drugs. Objective: To find out whether there was association between neurological complications and immunosuppression in a sample of patients who received renal transplantation. Methods: Cross-sectional study in which 121 renal transplant patients participated, of which 22 (18%) had neurological disorders, χ2 was used to analyze the relation between neurological disorders and comorbidity such as diabetes mellitus and hypertension and time of immunosuppressant use. A significance level of p