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ArticleLiver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society2015

The corrected donor age for hepatitis C virus-infected liver transplant recipients.

Melisa Dirchwolf, Jennifer L Dodge, Jane Gralla, Kiran M Bambha, Trevor Nydam, Kenneth W Hung, Hugo R Rosen, Sandy Feng, Norah A Terrault, Scott W Biggins

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Article in Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Receiving Hypertensive Donor Grafts Is Associated with Inferior Prognosis in Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation Recipients.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2018
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  4. Advances in liver transplantation allocation systems.World journal of gastroenterology · 2016
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10 authors.

Melisa DirchwolfHepatopatías Infecciosas, Hospital Francisco J. Muñiz, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Jennifer L DodgeUniversity of California San Francisco, Department of Surgery, San Francisco, CA.
Jane GrallaUniversity of Colorado, Departments of Pediatrics and Biostatistics and Informatics, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO.
Kiran M BambhaUniversity of Colorado, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO.
Trevor NydamUniversity of Colorado, Department of Surgery, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO.
Kenneth W HungUniversity of Colorado, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO.
Hugo R RosenUniversity of Colorado, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO.
Sandy FengUniversity of California San Francisco, Department of Surgery, San Francisco, CA.
Norah A TerraultUniversity of California San Francisco, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, San Francisco, CA.
Scott W BigginsUniversity of Colorado, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO.

Funding

UCSF Liver Core CenterP30DK026743 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Holger Willenbring · 1986 to 2026
$30.7M
Bias in Retransplantation Survival Models: Selection Criteria and Hepatitis CK08DK076565 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI BIGGINS, SCOTT W · 2007 to 2011
$610k
NIDDK NIH HHS DK076565NIDDK NIH HHS K08 DK076565NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK026743
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Donor age has become the dominant donor factor used to predict graft failure (GF) after liver transplantation (LT) in hepatitis C virus (HCV) recipients. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a model of corrected donor age (CDA) for HCV LT recipients that transforms the risk of other donor factors into the scale of donor age. We analyzed all first LT recipients with HCV in the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) registry from January 1998 to December 2007 (development cohort, n = 14,538) and January 2008 to December 2011 (validation cohort, n = 7502) using Cox regression, excluding early GF (<90 days from LT). Accuracy in predicting 1 year GF (death or repeat LT) was assessed with the net reclassification index (NRI). In the development cohort, after controlling for pre-LT recipient factors and geotemporal trends (UNOS region, LT year), the following donor factors were independent predictors of GF, all P < 0.05: donor age (hazard ratio [HR], 1.02/year), donation after cardiac death (DCD; HR, 1.31), diabetes (HR, 1.23), height < 160 cm (HR, 1.13), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≥ 120 U/L (HR, 1.10), female (HR, 0.94), cold ischemia time (CIT; HR, 1.02/hour), and non-African American (non-AA) donor-African American (AA) recipient (HR, 1.65). Transforming these risk factors into the donor age scale yielded the following: DCD = +16 years; diabetes = +12 years; height < 160 cm = +7 years; AST ≥ 120 U/L = +5 years; female = -4 years; and CIT = +1 year/hour > 8 hours and -1 year/hour < 8 hours. There was a large effect of donor-recipient race combinations: +29 years for non-AA donor and an AA recipient but only +5 years for an AA donor and an AA recipient, and -2 years for an AA donor and a non-AA recipient. In a validation cohort, CDA better classified risk of 1-year GF versus actual age (NRI, 4.9%; P = 0.009) and versus the donor risk index (9.0%, P < 0.001). The CDA, compared to actual donor age, provides an intuitive and superior estimation of graft quality for HCV-positive LT recipients because it incorporates additional factors that impact LT GF rates.

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Decision Support TechniquesDonor SelectionGraft SurvivalTissue DonorsAdultAge FactorsEnd Stage Liver DiseaseFemaleHepatitis CHumansLikelihood FunctionsLiver TransplantationMaleMiddle AgedMultivariate AnalysisPredictive Value of Tests

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PMID26074140
PMCPMC4809736

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