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. 2011 Aug;6(8):1912-9.
doi: 10.2215/CJN.08680910. Epub 2011 Jul 7.

Cardiac survival after pre-emptive coronary angiography in transplant patients and those awaiting transplantation

Nicola Kumar  1 , Christopher S R Baker, Kakit Chan, Neill Duncan, Iqbal Malik, Andrew Frankel, Damien R Ashby, Adam McLean, Andrew Palmer, Tom D Cairns, David Taube
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Cardiac survival after pre-emptive coronary angiography in transplant patients and those awaiting transplantation

Nicola Kumar et al. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2011 Aug.

Abstract

Background and objectives: Recent interest has focused on wait listing patients without pretreating coronary artery disease to expedite transplantation. Our practice is to offer coronary revascularization before transplantation if indicated.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements: Between 2006 and 2009, 657 patients (427 men, 230 women; ages, 56.5 ± 9.94 years) underwent pretransplant assessment with coronary angiography. 573 of 657 (87.2%) patients were wait listed; 247 of 573 (43.1%) patients were transplanted during the follow-up period, 30.09 ± 11.67 months.

Results: Patient survival for those not wait listed was poor, 83.2% and 45.7% at 1 and 3 years, respectively. In wait-listed patients, survival was 98.9% and 95.3% at 1 and 3 years, respectively. 184 of 657 (28.0%) patients were offered revascularization. Survival in patients (n = 16) declining revascularization was poor: 75% survived 1 year and 37.1% survived 3 years. Patients undergoing revascularization followed by transplantation (n = 51) had a 98.0% and 88.4% cardiac event-free survival at 1 and 3 years, respectively. Cardiac event-free survival for patients revascularized and awaiting deceased donor transplantation was similar: 94.0% and 90.0% at 1 and 3 years, respectively.

Conclusions: Our data suggest pre-emptive coronary revascularization is not only associated with excellent survival rates in patients subsequently transplanted, but also in those patients waiting on dialysis for a deceased donor transplant.

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Patient survival by intervention group, with risk table. CAD, coronary artery disease.
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Cardiac event–free survival in patients who have had coronary revascularization, with risk table.
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