Effect of Peripheral Vascular Disease on Kidney Allograft Outcomes: A Study of U.S. Renal Data System

Background: The U.S. Renal Data System was used to analyze renal allograft outcomes in patients with peripheral vascular disease (PVD) at the time of transplant listing. Methods: We used an incident cohort of patients who underwent renal transplantation between June 2004 and September 2009. We defined PVD as symptomatic PVD at wait-listing. Comorbid conditions were diabetes mellitus, ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, hypertension, and smoking. Chi-square test, Student's t test, and Cox regression were used for statistical associations. Results: The mean graft survival was 55.3+/-0.40 months in patients with PVD versus 60.8+/-0.06 months in patients without PVD. There was an increased risk of graft failure with PVD (hazard ratio, 2.01; 95% confidence in-terval, 1.83-2.21; P=0.0001). After adjusting for other variables, PVD remained an independent risk factor for graft failure. Patients with PVD had lower death-censored graft survival versus patients without PVD at 1 year (93.3% vs. 96.6%), 2 years (89.7% vs. 95%), and 3 years (87.2% vs. 93.7%). All-cause mortality was higher in PVD versus without PVD (6.2% vs. 3.0%). In African Americans, the mean allograft survival was 54.8+/-0.98, months with PVD versus 59.7+/-0.135 months without PVD (P=0.0001). In non-African Americans, the mean allograft survival was 55.4+/-0.44 months with PVD versus 61.1+/-0.069 months without PVD (P=0.0001). There were no differences in survival between African Americans with PVD and non-African Americans with PVD. Conclusions: Patients with PVD have inferior allograft and patient survival versus those without PVD. Caution should be exercised when placing patients with symptomatic PVD or amputation on the wait-list. (C) 2013 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.

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