Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) show characteristic abnormalities in cardiac structure and function. We evaluated the influence of these abnormalities on adverse cardiopulmonary outcomes after living donor kidney transplantation in patients with valid preoperative transthoracic echocardiographic evaluation. | Predictive value of echocardiographic abnormalities and the impact of diastolic dysfunction on in hospital major cardiovascular complications after living donor kidney transplantation