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Table 6 The Patient and Graft Survival Rates throughout Follow-up Time and the Causes of Graft Failure

From: Effects of pretransplant peritoneal vs hemodialysis modality on outcome of first kidney transplantation from donors after cardiac death

Characteristics

PKT group

(n = 5)

HD group

(n = 104)

PD group

(n = 98)

p-value

Transplatation outcomes, %(n)

 Patient survival

100.0(5/5)

96.2(100/104)

96.9(95/98)

1.000

 Graft survival

100.0(5/5)

93.3(97/104)

93.9(92/98)

0.860

 Death-censored graft survival

100.0(5/5)

97.1(101/104)

96.9(95/98)

1.000

Causes of graft failure, % (n)

   

< 0.001*

 Acute rejection

0(0/0)

0(0/7)

28.6(2/7)

 

 Severe infection

0(0/0)

28.6(2/7)

57.1(4/7)

 

 Primary failure

0(0/0)

0(0/7)

14.3(1/7)

 

 Surgical complications

0(0/0)

57.1(4/7)

0(0/7)

 

 Others

0(0/0)

14.3(1/7)

0(0/7)

 
  1. P-value, between hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis group; *, statistically significant
  2. PKT pre-emptive kidney transplantation, HD hemodialysis, PD peritoneal dialysis