How well do pre- and peritransplant variables predict the long-term results of kidney transplantation?
Foucher, Y.; Daguin, P.; Kessler, M.èl.; Ladriere, M.; Legendre, C.; Kreis, H.; Durand, D.; Laveyssiere, L.; Mourad, G.; Garrigue, V.ér.; Soulillou, J.-P.; Giral, M.
Clinical Transplants 2008: 113-118
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 0890-9016 PMID: 19711513 Document Number: 619647
In organ transplantation, several clinical risk factors that are available before or immediately following the time of surgery have been shown to affect long-term transplant outcomes. We examined their ability to predict long-term survival accurately using a novel statistical method and data from the Données Informatisees et Validées en Transplantation on 3,227 kidney transplant recipients between 1996-2006 at 5 French transplant centers. The results clearly illustrate that the correlation of these parameters with survival is not sufficient to constitute a prognostic marker. In kidney transplantation, classical pre- and peritransplant clinical risk factors of graft loss are poor predictive markers for medical decision-making.