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From: Simultaneous heart-kidney transplantation results in respectable long-term outcome but a high rate of early kidney graft loss in high-risk recipients – a European single center analysis

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Kidney graft survival after solitary kidney or simultaneous heart-kidney transplantation. Kidney graft survival after solitary kidney transplantation (KTx) or simultaneous heart-kidney transplantation (HKTx) (non-censored and censored for death) (A) and broken down into subgroups with regard to prior cardiac surgery (non-censored for death) (B). A comparison of survival curves shows the rapid decline in kidney graft survival, mainly due to the high rate of primary nonfunction and in-hospital mortality in patients undergoing HKTx. The further course depicts an additional decline in graft survival in patients undergoing HKTx with prior cardiac surgery requiring sternotomy, when compared to solitary KTx or HKTx with or without (w/o) prior cardiac surgery. ns not significant. * HKTx w/o prior cardiac surgery versus HKTx with prior cardiac surgery (p = 0.016). ** KTx versus HKTx with prior cardiac surgery (p = 0.001)

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