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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 27.
Published in final edited form as: Transplantation. 2014 Jul 27;98(2):229–238. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000000047

Table 2.

Pretransplant crossmatch results and time of diagnosis Single Antigen Bead assay results of acute allograft dysfunction patients and heart transplant recipient controls

Variable AAD Patients (N=10) Controls (N=30) p-value

Pretransplant Crossmatch

Cytotoxic crossmatch positive 0 0 1.0
FLAP PRA positive (>10%) 0 0 1.0
FXM performed 6 (60%) 11 (37%) 0.02
    T-cell FXM positive 1 (17%) 0
B-cell FXM positive 1 (17%) 0
Virtual crossmatch positive* 2 (20%) 2 (7%) 0.04
    Anti-HLA class I DSA 1 (10%) 2 (7%)
    Anti-HLA class II DSA 1 (10%) 0
    Anti-HLA class I and II DSA 0 0

At AAD Diagnosis or Control Matching

Positive DSA 4 (40%) 16 (53%) 0.43
Anti-HLA class I DSA 3 (30%) 2 (7%) 0.02
    Mean peak class I (MFI) 1526 ± 2904 307 ± 1174 0.01
    Mean cumulative class I (MFI) 3056 ± 6108 378 ± 1440 0.01
Anti-HLA class II DSA 3 (30%) 15 (50%) 0.05
    Mean peak class II (MFI) 2229 ± 4538 1467 ± 3215 0.02
    Mean cumulative class II (MFI) 6886 ± 17401 2476 ± 6434 <0.01
Anti-HLA class I and II DSA 2 (20%) 1 (3%) 0.03
*

Positive virtual crossmatch=MFI>2000.

Results compared at the time of diagnosis for AAD patients and at the time of matching for controls. Data are presented as mean ±standard deviation for continuous data or as frequency (percentage) for categorical data. AAD-acute allograft dysfunction, DSA-donor specific antibodies, FLAP=frozen lymphocyte antibody panel, FXM-flow cytometric crossmatch, HLA-human leukocyte antigen, MFI-mean fluorescence intensity, PRA-panel of reactive antibodies,