Costs in the Year Following Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation: Relationships With Renal Function and Graft Failure.

ABSTRACT: Relationships between renal function and medical costs for deceased donor kidney transplant recipients are not fully quantified post-transplant. We describe these relationships with renal function measured by estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and graft failure. The United States Renal Data System identified adults receiving single-organ deceased donor kidneys 2012-2015. Inpatient, outpatient, other facility costs and eGFRs at discharge, 6 and 12 months were included. A time-history of costs was constructed for graft failures and monthly costs in the first year post-transplant were compared to those without failure. The cohort of 24,021 deceased donor recipients had a 2.4% graft failure rate in the first year. Total medical costs exhibit strong trends with eGFR. Recipients with 6-

SUBMITTER: Cooper M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9184448 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature