Waiting time for second kidney transplantation and mortality

Autor: Alexander Kainz, Michael Kammer, Roman Reindl-Schwaighofer, Susanne Strohmaier, Vojtěch Petr, Ondrej Viklicky, Daniel Abramowicz, Marcel Naik, Gert Mayer, Rainer Oberbauer
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol
ISSN: 1555-9041
Popis: Background and objectives The median kidney transplant half-life is 10 - 15 years. Because of the scarcity of donor organs and immunologic sensitization of candidates for retransplantation, there is a need for quantitative information on if and when a second transplantation is no longer associated with a lower risk of mortality compared with waitlisted patients treated by dialysis. Therefore, we investigated the association of time on waiting list with patient survival in patients who received a second transplantation versus remaining on the waiting list.Design, setting, participants, & measurements In this retrospective study using target trial emulation, we analyzed data of 2346 patients from the Austrian Dialysis and Transplant Registry and Eurotransplant with a failed first graft, aged over 18 years, and waitlisted for a second kidney transplantation in Austria during the years 1980 - 2019. The differences in restricted mean survival time and hazard ratios for all-cause mortality comparing the treatment strategies " retransplant " versus " remain waitlisted with maintenance dialysis " are reported for different waiting times after first graft loss.Results Second kidney transplantation showed a longer restricted mean survival time at 10 years of follow-up compared with remaining on the waiting list (5.8 life months gained; 95% confidence interval, 0.9 to 11.1). This survival difference was diminished in patients with longer waiting time after loss of the first allograft; restricted mean survival time differences at 10 years were 8.0 (95% confidence interval, 1.9 to 14.0) and 0.1 life months gained (95%confidence interval,214.3 to 15.2) for patients with waiting time for retransplantation of < 1 and 8 years, respectively.Conclusions Second kidney transplant is associated with patient survival compared with remaining waitlisted and treatment by dialysis, but the survival difference diminishes with longer waiting time.
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