Home Dialysis Patients Who Received a Transplant
This is not a laboratory test that measures a substance in a sample. It is a descriptive or administrative category identifying patients who were receiving home dialysis and later received a kidney transplant.
The slug describes a patient group rather than a measurable lab analyte, so no specimen, method, or numeric result applies.
Key facts at a glance
- LOINC
- 64341-1
- Short code
- HOMEDIALYSISPATIENTSWHORECEIVEDTRANSPLANT
- Synonyms
- —
- Category
- chemistry
- Sample
- serum
- Container
- Red-top tube (SST)
- Units
- N/A
- Fasting
- false
- Population
- adult
- Sex
- all
- Age range
- 18–65 years
- Specimen volume
- 5 mL
- Stability
- Room temperature: 4h, Refrigerated: 24h, Frozen: 7d
- Hemolysis max
- 500
- Lipemia max
- 1000
- Icterus max
- 500
- TAT
- 4–24 hours
- Order
- routine
What This Term Means
The phrase combines three ideas: home dialysis (dialysis performed outside a clinic, such as peritoneal dialysis or home hemodialysis), patients, and having received a transplant. Together it labels a population of patients for tracking, research, or quality reporting rather than a single lab measurement.
Why It Is Not a Standard Lab Test
A true lab test name usually specifies a specimen (for example serum or urine), an analyte, and often a method. This term contains none of those measurement elements. It is a clinical or administrative descriptor, so there is no sample to collect and no result value to report.
How Such Categories Are Used
Registries and quality programs use groupings like this to compare outcomes, follow patients over time, and study transitions in care. For example, researchers may track how home dialysis patients fare before and after transplantation. The label helps organize data, not diagnose an individual.
What to Expect if You See It in Your Records
If this phrase appears in your chart or a report, it is likely describing your treatment history, not a test you need to prepare for. Ask your care team to clarify what the entry refers to. No fasting, timing, or specimen collection is associated with this category.
Clinical interpretation
How abnormal results are interpreted and what conditions they suggest.
Clinically, this category matters for care coordination and outcomes research. Home dialysis patients who receive a transplant move from one form of kidney replacement therapy to another, and tracking this group helps clinicians understand survival, graft function, and quality of life. It does not itself indicate any laboratory abnormality or provide a measurable result.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to prepare for this as a lab test?
Does this term tell me anything about my kidney function?
Why would this appear in my medical record?
Sources
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