Association of Kidney Transplantation with Survival in Patients with Long Dialysis Exposure

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Evidence that kidney transplantation is associated with better survival compared to dialysis stems from data in populations with short durations of dialysis exposure. Recent changes in allocation policy increase access to transplantation for patients with longer dialysis exposure. The objective of this study was to determine the association of transplantation with survival in patients with ≥10 years of dialysis treatment.

DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: Our study of n=5365 patients in the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients determined the adjusted relative risk of death in recipients of a deceased donor kidney transplant after ≥10 years of dialysis treatment compared with waitlisted patients with the same dialysis exposure in a time-dependent nonproportional hazards analysis.

RESULTS: The adjusted relative risk of death in n=2320 transplant recipients compared with patients on dialysis who had equal lengths of follow-up from their 10-year dialysis anniversary was 0.60 (95% confidence interval, 0.53 to 0.68), and this benefit was observed in a variety of patient subgroups, including patients ≥65 years of age and patients with diabetes. However, transplant recipients were at higher risk of death for 180 days after transplantation and did not derive survival benefit until 657 days after transplantation, despite receiving good-quality kidneys. The study patients were younger and had higher expected post-transplant survival than patients currently waitlisted with ≥10 years of dialysis.

CONCLUSIONS: Transplantation is associated with better survival in patients who were actively waitlisted with dialysis exposure ≥10 years. Whether transplantation is associated with better survival in currently waitlisted patients with similar dialysis exposure and whether transplantation of lower-quality deceased donor kidneys is associated with better survival are uncertain.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - 12(2017), 12 vom: 07. Dez., Seite 2024-2031

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rose, Caren [VerfasserIn]
Gill, Jagbir [VerfasserIn]
Gill, John S [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cadaver organ transplantation
Confidence Intervals
Diabetes mellitus
Follow-Up Studies
Graft Survival
Humans
Journal Article
Kidney
Kidney transplantation
Registries
Renal dialysis
Risk
Survival
Tissue Donors
Transplant Recipients

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 27.07.2018

Date Revised 13.08.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2215/CJN.06100617

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM277426847