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Post-Renal Transplant Nursing Care · NCLEX Exam

What side-effect should a nurse monitor for in a patient on high-dose corticosteroids post-transplant?

  1. Hyperglycemia leading to new-onset diabetes mellitus
  2. New-onset diabetes, hypertension, and osteoporosis
  3. A reduction in appetite without other notable effects
  4. Essentially no clinically significant adverse effects
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Correct answer: New-onset diabetes, hypertension, and osteoporosis

Corticosteroids (common in transplant regimens) have side-effects including hyperglycemia/diabetes, hypertension, bone loss which nurses must monitor.

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