TY - JOUR
T1 - The Kidney Transplant Morbidity Index (KTMI)
T2 - A simple prognostic tool to help determine outcome risk in kidney transplant candidates
AU - Pieloch, Daniel
AU - Dombrovskiy, Viktor
AU - Osband, Adena J.
AU - DebRoy, Meelie
AU - Mann, Richard A.
AU - Fernandez, Sonalis
AU - Mondal, Zahidul
AU - Laskow, David A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 NATCO, The Organization for Transplant Professionals.
PY - 2015/3/1
Y1 - 2015/3/1
N2 - Background - The Kidney Transplant Morbidity Index (KTMI) is a novel prognostic morbidity index to help determine the impact that pretransplant comorbid conditions have on transplant outcome. Objective - To use national data to validate the KTMI. Design - Retrospective analysis of the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network/United Network for Organ Sharing database. Setting and Participants - The study sample consisted of 100 261 adult patients who received a kidney transplant between 2000 and 2008. Main Outcome Measure - Kaplan-Meier survival curves were used to demonstrate 3-year graft and patient survival for each KTMI score. Cox proportional hazards regression models were created to determine hazards for 3-year graft failure and patient mortality for each KTMI score. Results - A sequential decrease in graft survival (0 = 91.2%, 1 = 88.2%, 2 = 85.4%, 3 = 81.7%, 4 = 77.8%, 5 = 74.0%, 6 = 69.8%, and ≥7 = 68.7) and patient survival (0 = 98.2%, 1 = 96.6%, 2 = 93.7%, 3 = 89.7%, 4 = 84.8%, 5 = 80.8%, 6 = 76.0%, and ≥7 = 74.7%) is seen as KTMI scores increase. The differences in graft and patient survival between KTMI scores are all significant (P< .001) except between 6 and ≥7. Multivariate regression analysis reveals that KTMI is an independent predictor of higher graft failure and patient mortality rates and that risk increases as KTMI scores increase. Conclusion - The KTMI strongly predicts graft and patient survival by using pretransplant comorbid conditions; therefore, this easy-to-use tool can aid in determining outcome risk and transplant candidacy before listing, particularly in candidates with multiple comorbid conditions.
AB - Background - The Kidney Transplant Morbidity Index (KTMI) is a novel prognostic morbidity index to help determine the impact that pretransplant comorbid conditions have on transplant outcome. Objective - To use national data to validate the KTMI. Design - Retrospective analysis of the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network/United Network for Organ Sharing database. Setting and Participants - The study sample consisted of 100 261 adult patients who received a kidney transplant between 2000 and 2008. Main Outcome Measure - Kaplan-Meier survival curves were used to demonstrate 3-year graft and patient survival for each KTMI score. Cox proportional hazards regression models were created to determine hazards for 3-year graft failure and patient mortality for each KTMI score. Results - A sequential decrease in graft survival (0 = 91.2%, 1 = 88.2%, 2 = 85.4%, 3 = 81.7%, 4 = 77.8%, 5 = 74.0%, 6 = 69.8%, and ≥7 = 68.7) and patient survival (0 = 98.2%, 1 = 96.6%, 2 = 93.7%, 3 = 89.7%, 4 = 84.8%, 5 = 80.8%, 6 = 76.0%, and ≥7 = 74.7%) is seen as KTMI scores increase. The differences in graft and patient survival between KTMI scores are all significant (P< .001) except between 6 and ≥7. Multivariate regression analysis reveals that KTMI is an independent predictor of higher graft failure and patient mortality rates and that risk increases as KTMI scores increase. Conclusion - The KTMI strongly predicts graft and patient survival by using pretransplant comorbid conditions; therefore, this easy-to-use tool can aid in determining outcome risk and transplant candidacy before listing, particularly in candidates with multiple comorbid conditions.
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U2 - 10.7182/pit2015462
DO - 10.7182/pit2015462
M3 - Article
C2 - 25758804
AN - SCOPUS:84924785818
SN - 1526-9248
VL - 25
SP - 70
EP - 76
JO - Progress in Transplantation
JF - Progress in Transplantation
IS - 1
ER -