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Table 1 Characteristics of recipients, donors and intraoperative variables

From: Perioperative hemoglobin decrement as an independent risk of poor early graft function in kidney transplantation

Variables

PEGF (n = 98)

IGF (n = 171)

P-value

Recipients

 Age (year), mean ± SD

42.7 ± 10.8

41.4 ± 11.7

0.393

 Gender, male

62 (63.3)

102 (59.6)

0.604

 BMI (kg/m2), mean ± SD

22.4 ± 4.2

21.6 ± 3.8

0.087

Comorbid

0.125

 Smoking

20 (20.4)

30 (17.5)

 Diabetes mellitus

5 (5.1)

28 (16.4)

 Hypertension

89 (90.8)

155 (90.6)

 Coronary artery disease

3 (3.1)

9 (5.3)

 Cerebrovascular disease

0 (0.0)

2 (1.2)

Causes of ESRD

0.020

 Diabetes mellitus

2 (2.0)

16 (9.4)

 Hypertension

2 (2.0)

2 (1.2)

 Renal diseases

20 (20.4)

70 (40.9)

 Congenital

1 (1.0)

6 (3.5)

 Unknown/others

70 (71.4)

91 (53.2)

Dialysis modality

0.165

 Hemodialysis

87 (88.8)

143 (83.6)

 Peritoneal dialysis

9 (9.2)

21 (12.3)

Baseline creatinine (mg/dL), mean ± SD

9.48 ± 3.7

8.18 ± 3.7

0.007

Baseline pre-transplant hemoglobin (g/dL), median [IQR]

11.8 [10.7,13.2]

11.4 [10.1,12.6]

0.700

Postoperative hemoglobin (g/dL), median [IQR]

10.4 [9.4, 11.1]

10.6 [9.6, 11.7]

0.150

Positive anti-CMV

94/95 (98.9)

163/166 (98.2)

0.520

Pretransplant PRA (%), median [IQR]

0 [0, 53]

0 [0, 0]

0.003

Pretransplant blood transfusion

31 (31.6)

50 (29.2)

0.721

Donors

 Age (year), mean ± SD

43.9 ± 14.5

39.0 ± 11.2

0.002

 Gender, male

76 (77.6)

83 (48.5)

 < 0.001

 HLA-A + B + DR mismatch, median [IQR]

2 [2, 3]

3 [2, 4]

0.012

 Deceased donor

87 (88.7)

39 (22.8)

 < 0.001

 WIT (min), median [IQR]

45 [38, 55]

39 [32, 50]

0.004

 CIT (min), median [IQR]

1205 [909, 1378]

27 [18, 72]

 < 0.001

Intraoperative

 Intravenous fluid (L), median [IQR]

3.6 [3.0, 4.2]

3.5 [2.9, 4.1]

0.737

 Blood transfusion

10 (10.2)

23 (13.5)

0.435

 EBL (mL), median [IQR]

400 [300, 600]

300 [200, 400]

 < 0.001

 Need for vasopressor

21 (21.4)

45 (26.3)

0.378

Perioperative

 Perioperative Hb change (g/dL), median [IQR]

−1.6 [−2.38, −0.83]

−0.7 [−1.35, 0.20]

 < 0.001

 Percentage of Hb decrement (%), median [IQR]

12.6 [7.0, 17.5]

5.9 [−1.7, 11.9]

 < 0.001

  1. If not indicated otherwise: n (%)