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Getting Important Blood Draws from Home—All Your Questions Answered About RemoTraC™ 

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Before COVID-19, most kidney- and heart-transplant recipients got their weekly or monthly blood tests at the hospital or a local blood-draw center. When COVID-19 touched down, however, hospitals became places where exposure to the coronavirus was higher.

Patients who are on immunosuppression—such as transplant recipients—are likely to be at a higher risk of severe infection and associated complications of COVID-19.1 Therefore, it is critical that transplant recipients have routine access to their transplant-lab testing in environments that limit their exposure to the coronavirus.

How do you solve such a dilemma?

Since March 2020, over 5,000 transplant recipients have turned to RemoTraC.

Learn more about RemoTraC, here.

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What Are the Benefits of Transplant Recipients Doing Home Blood Draws?

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We have been living in a COVID-19 world for close to a year now, and the pandemic has changed society’s routines and forced it to delay—or go without—many things.

As a transplant recipient, however, you know that you cannot delay—or go without—certain things, especially those related to your care.

Routine check-ups with your transplant team can help detect transplant complications.

Labs are also incredibly important for transplant recipients like yourself because they asses the ongoing health of your transplanted kidney or heart. If you are a kidney-transplant recipient, important regular labs that you may need include:

  • AlloSure® or KidneyCare
  • Complete Blood Count
  • Anti-rejection-med levels (eg., Tacrolimus, Sirolimus, Cyclosporin, Everolimus)
  • Urinary Protein/Creatinine Ratio
  • Complete Metabolic Profile + Mg + Phos
  • Viral PCR (BK/CMV/EBV)
  • Urinary Protein / Creatinine Ratio

If you are a heart-transplant recipient, important regular labs that you may need include:

  • AlloSure or HeartCare
  • Complete Blood Count
  • Anti-rejection med levels (eg., Tacrolimus, Sirolimus, Cyclosporin, Everolimus)
  • Comprehensive Metabolic Panel + Mg + Phos
  • Viral PCR (BK/CMV/EBV)

Read the full article, here.

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