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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 13.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Transl Med. 2014 Jun 18;6(241):241ra77. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3007803

Table 1. Discordance with biopsy: False positives and false negatives in Fig. 5A and corresponding clinical notes.

Among the five most significant outliers (elevated cfdDNA) in the group of samples with biopsy grade 0, four samples corresponded to patients diagnosed with mild rejection (grade 1R) within 6 weeks of the discordant reading. Among the five greatest outliers in the group of mild rejections (grade 1R), four samples corresponded to patients who were diagnosed within 2 months with a moderate or severe ACR (≥2R) or AMR event. Last, among the samples for which a low cfdDNA level was recorded, although the biopsy grade indicated a moderate rejection (2R), three patients were asymptomatic and had normal allograft function.

Type Patient Months after transplant Donor fraction corrected (%) Endomyocardial biopsy grade Clinical notes
False positive A30 2.5 1.21 0 Mild rejection at month 4
False positive A28 3 0.68 0 Mild rejection at month 4
False positive P4 1 0.45 0
False positive P13 1 0.4 0 Mild rejection at month 2
False positive A16 0.75 0.4 0 Mild rejection at month 1.25
False positive A28 8 5 1R/1B Moderate rejection at month 9
False positive P13 6.5 4.7 1R/1A AMR at month 5
False positive A25 16 2.4 1R/1A
False positive P20 10 2.8 1R/1A Severe rejection at month 12
False positive P13 3 1.67 1R/1A Moderate rejection at month 4
False negative A34 4 −0.06 2R/3A Normal allograft function
False negative A6 8 −0.02 2R/3A Normal allograft function
False negative A4 3 0.03 2R/3A Chagas disease reactivation
False negative A40 1 0.04 2R/3A
False negative A10 3 0.06 2R/3A Normal allograft function