The Importance of 24 Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring After Thoracic Organ Transplantation

This study demonstrates that conventional blood pressure monitoring underestimates the incidence of post-transplantation hypertension. Twenty-four hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is well tolerated and may improve the management of post-transplantation hypertension. White-coat hypertension is an uncommon diagnosis after cardiac transplantation, and those recipients who are hypertensive in the clinic setting should be considered true hypertensives.