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ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplant Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

ABO blood group-incompatible kidney transplantation is considered a safe procedure, with noninferior outcomes in large cohort studies. Its contribution to living kidney transplantation programs is substantial and growing. Outcomes compared with center-matched ABO blood group-compatible control patients have not been ascertained.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

Comprehensive searches were conducted in Embase, Medline, Cochrane, Web-of-Science, and Google Scholar. Meta-analyses Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology study guidelines for observational studies and Newcastle Ottawa bias scale were implemented to assess studies. Meta-analysis was performed using Review Manager 5.3. A subgroup analysis on antibody removal technique was performed.

Results

After identifying 2728 studies addressing ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation, 26 studies were included, describing 1346 unique patients who were ABO-incompatible and 4943 ABO-compatible controls. Risk of bias was low (all studies ?7 of 9 stars). Baseline patient characteristics revealed no significant differences in immunologic risk parameters. Statistical heterogeneity of studies was low (I² 0% for graft and patient survival). One-year uncensored graft survival of patients who were ABO-incompatible was 96% versus 98% in ABO-compatible controls (relative risk, 0.97; 95% confidence interval, 0.96 to 0.98; P<0.001). Forty-nine percent of reported causes of death in patients who were ABO-incompatible were of infectious origin, versus only 13% in patients who were ABO-compatible (P=0.02). Antibody-mediated rejection (3.86; 95% confidence interval, 2.05 to 7.29; P<0.001), severe nonviral infection (1.44; 95% confidence interval, 1.13 to 1.82; P=0.003), and bleeding (1.92; 95% confidence interval, 1.36 to 2.72; P<0.001) were also more common after ABO-incompatible transplantation.

Conclusions

ABO-incompatible kidney transplant recipients have good outcomes, albeit inferior to center-matched ABO-compatible control patients.

SUBMITTER: de Weerd AE

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6086717 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplant Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis.

de Weerd Annelies E AE Betjes Michiel G H MGH

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 20180716 8

<h4>Background and objectives</h4>ABO blood group-incompatible kidney transplantation is considered a safe procedure, with noninferior outcomes in large cohort studies. Its contribution to living kidney transplantation programs is substantial and growing. Outcomes compared with center-matched ABO blood group-compatible control patients have not been ascertained.<h4>Design, setting, participants, & measurements</h4>Comprehensive searches were conducted in Embase, Medline, Cochrane, Web-of-Science ...[more]

PMID: 30012630

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Project description:INTRODUCTION:Certain ABO blood types have been linked to cardiovascular disease, infection and cancers. The effect of recipient ABO blood group on patient and graft survival has not been studied in ABO-matched kidney transplantation. This study aims to determine the association between kidney transplant recipient ABO blood groups with patient and graft survival in Australian and New Zealand. METHODS:All Australian and New Zealand transplant recipients who received ABO-compatible primary kidney transplants between 1995-2016 were analysed using a de-identified dataset from the Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant (ANZDATA) Registry. Primary analysis was undertaken of recipient ABO blood group O versus non-O blood groups. The primary outcome was patient survival post kidney transplantation and the secondary outcome was death censored graft survival. Recipient age at first transplant, gender, ethnicity, body mass index, smoking status, vascular disease, presence of diabetes mellitus, chronic lung disease, primary kidney disease, donor source, donor age and gender, and era of transplants were included in the multivariate model as confounders. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS:On analysis of 15,523 kidney transplant recipients, blood group O was not associated with patient survival (hazard ratio (HR) 0.96, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.89-1.04) nor death censored graft survival (HR 0.97, 95% CI 0.89-1.05) compared to non-blood group O recipients. Competing risks analyses showed an increased risk of cancer-related mortality in blood group O recipients on univariate analyses (HR 1.18, 95% CI 1.01-1.37) however, this became insignificant on multivariate analyses. On secondary analyses, recipient blood group AB (4.11% participants) was associated with inferior death censored graft survival compared to those with blood group O (HR 1.24, 95% CI 1.02-1.50). Although recipient ABO blood groups were not associated with patient nor graft survival, differences in cause-specific mortality between individual blood groups cannot be excluded based on current analyses.

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ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplant Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis.

Background and objectives

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

Results

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ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplant Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis.

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