Home glucometer monitoring markedly improves diagnosis of post renal transplant diabetes mellitus in renal transplant recipients.

Background.Definitions of de novo posttransplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM) have varied widely in the renal transplant literature, and most have not used the American Diabetes Association (ADA) definition of diabetes (fasting plasma glucose [FPG] ≥126 mg/dl on two occasions, or a casual plasma glucose