Center-Specific Graft and Patient Survival Rates

Center-specific graft and patient survival rates: 1997 United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) report.

CONTEXT Multiple comprehensive, risk-adjusted studies evaluating short-term surgical mortality have been reported previously. This report analyzes short-term and long-term outcomes, both nationally and at each individual transplant program, for all solid organ transplantations performed in the United States. OBJECTIVES To report graft and patient survival rates for all solid organ transplanta...

Deep Learning for Patient-Specific Kidney Graft Survival Analysis

An accurate model of patient-specific kidney graft survival distributions can help to improve shared-decision making in the treatment and care of patients. In this paper, we propose a deep learning method that directly models the survival function instead of estimating the hazard function to predict survival times for graft patients based on the principle of multi-task learning. By learning to ...

Impact of graft failure on patient survival on dialysis: a comparison of transplant-naive and post-graft failure mortality rates.

BACKGROUND While the number of patients returning to dialysis after graft failure (GF) is increasing steadily, the impact of a failed kidney transplant on mortality among dialysis patients has not been studied well. METHODS Data from the Canadian Organ Replacement Register were utilized to examine the outcomes of an incident cohort of patients (n = 25,632) initiating renal replacement therapy...

The impact of residual renal function on graft and patient survival rates in recipients of preemptive renal transplants.

BACKGROUND Transplantation before the initiation of dialysis is associated with prolonged allograft survival. It is unclear if this benefit is attributable to greater residual renal function or to avoidance of dialysis exposure. The authors performed an analysis to determine whether higher renal function at transplant was associated with increased patient and graft survival rates. METHODS The...

post-transplant anemia: treatable multifactorial pathogenesis and negative impact on graft and possibly patient survival