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Long‐term follow‐up of the DeKAF cross‐sectional cohort study
Author(s) -
Matas Arthur J.,
Fieberg Ann,
Man Roslyn B.,
Leduc Robert,
Grande Joe,
Kasiske Bertram L.,
Cecka Michael,
Gaston Robert,
Hunsicker Lawrence,
Connett John,
Cosio Fernando,
Gourishankar Sita,
Rush David
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
american journal of transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1600-6143
pISSN - 1600-6135
DOI - 10.1111/ajt.15204
Subject(s) - medicine , cohort , biopsy , proportional hazards model , survival analysis , surgery , cause of death , creatinine , cross sectional study , pathology , disease
The De KAF study was developed to better understand the causes of late allograft loss. Preliminary findings from the De KAF cross‐sectional cohort (with follow‐up < 20 months) have been published. Herein, we present long‐term outcomes in those recipients (mean follow‐up ± SD, 6.6 ± 0.7 years). Eligibility included being transplanted prior to October 1, 2005; serum creatinine ≤ 2.0 mg/ dL on January 1, 2006; and subsequently developing new‐onset graft dysfunction leading to a biopsy. Mean time from transplant to biopsy was 7.5 ± 6.1 years. Histologic findings and DSA were studied in relation to postbiopsy outcomes. Long‐term follow‐up confirms and expands the preliminary results of each of 3 studies: (1) increasing inflammation in area of atrophy (irrespective of inflammation in nonscarred areas [Banff i]) was associated with increasingly worse postbiopsy death‐censored graft survival; (2) hierarchical analysis based on Banff scores defined clusters (entities) that differed in long‐term death‐censored graft survival; and (3) C4d−/DSA− recipients had significantly better (and C4d+/ DSA + worse) death‐censored graft survival than other groups. C4d+/ DSA ‐ and C4d−/ DSA + had similar intermediate death‐censored graft survival. Clinical and histologic findings at the time of new‐onset graft dysfunction define high‐ vs low‐risk groups for long‐term death‐censored graft survival, even years posttransplant. These findings can help differentiate groups for potential intervention studies.