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NEPHROLOGY DIALYSIS TRANSPLANTATION
Volume 24, Issue 9, Pages 2915-2919Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfp295
Keywords
kidney transplantation; mortality; nocturnal haemodialysis; survival analysis
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- Korea government (MOST) [R13-2002-054-04001-0]
- Ministry for Health, Welfare & Family Affairs, Republic of Korea [A084001]
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Methods. Using data from two regional NHD programmes and the USRDS from 1994 to 2006, we performed a matched cohort study comparing survival between NHD and deceased and living donor kidney transplantation (DTX and LTX) by randomly matching NHD patients to transplant recipients in a 1:3:3 ratio. The independent association of treatment modality with survival was determined using Cox multivariate regression. Results. The total study population consisted of 177 NHD patients matched to 1062 DTX and LTX recipients (total 1239 patients) followed for a maximum of 12.4 years. During the follow-up period, the proportion of deaths among NHD, DTX and LTX patients was 14.7%, 14.3% and 8.5%, respectively (P = 0.006). We found no difference in the adjusted survival between NHD and DTX (HR 0.87, 95% CI 0.50-1.51; NHD reference group), while LTX survival was better (HR 0.51, 95% CI 0.28-0.91). Conclusions. These results indicate that NHD and DTX survival is comparable, and suggest that this intensive dialysis modality may be a bridge to transplantation or even a suitable alternative in the absence of LTX in the current era of growing transplant waiting lists and organ shortage.
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