Dialysis Vintage and Outcomes after Kidney Transplantation: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Historically, length of pretransplant dialysis was associated with premature graft loss and mortality after kidney transplantation, but with recent advancements in RRT it is unclear whether this negative association still exists.

Design, setting, participants, &measurements

This is a retrospective cohort study evaluating 6979 first kidney allograft recipients from the Austrian Registry transplanted between 1990 and 2013. Duration of pretransplant dialysis treatment was used as categoric predictor classified by tertiles of the distribution of time on dialysis. A separate category for pre-emptive transplantation was added and defined as kidney transplantation without any dialysis preceding the transplant. Outcomes were death-censored graft loss, all-c

SUBMITTER: Haller MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5220655 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature