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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Heart Lung Transplant. 2016 Jan 7;35(6):731–742. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2015.12.023

Table 2.

Panel reactive antibody data, stratified by mechanical circulatory support class. Mean± standard deviation is reported along with median (interquartile range).

e Non-
missing
Data
No-MCS
without
history of
cardiac
surgery
(n = 4533)
No-MCS
with
history of
previous
cardiac
surgery
(n = 2699)
P All MCS
(n = 3932)
p CF LVAD
(n = 2532)
p PF LVAD
(n = 811)
p BiVAD
(n = 441)
p TAH
(n = 121)
p RVAD
(n = 27)
P
Most recent
panel-
reactive
antibody,
class I
11108
(93.8)
5.0±15.3
0 (0–0)
6.0±17.2
0 (0–1)
0.007 9.2±21.1
0 (0–5)
<0.001 8.8±20.4
0 (0–4)
<0.001 9.0±21.1
0 (0–4)
<0.001 10.4±22.1
0 (0–8)
<0.001 17.6±29.1
2 (0–21.5)
<0.001 4.6±12.6
0 (0–2)
0.90
Most recent
panel-
reactive
antibody,
class II
10485
(88.6)
4.4±15.2
0 (0–0)
4.8±16.1
0 (0–0)
0.28 5.4±16.6
0 (0–0)
0.01 5.2±16.2
0 (0–0)
0.04 4.2±14.7
0 (0–0)
0.73 6.2±18.5
0 (0–0)
0.02 13.0±25.2
0 (0–15.5)
<0.001 3.4±10.5
0 (0–1)
0.75
Peak panel-
reactive
antibody,
class I
2720
(23.0)
24.2±26.4
14 (5–34)
29.9±29.6
19 (6–47)
<0.00
1
34.4±31.1
24 (9–56)
<0.001 33.3±30.6
23 (8–52)
<0.001 38.3±32.7
28 (10–64)
<0.001 34.6±30.9
24 (9–59)
<0.001 39.3±32.3
30 (14–65)
<0.001 10.0±12.4
6 (1–21)
0.15
Peak panel-
reactive
antibody,
class II
1542
(13.0)
30.8±30.9
18.5 (3–
57)
33.5±31.5
23 (6–60)
0.21 34.1±31.1
25 (7–58)
0.17 32.8±30.4
23 (7–56)
0.32 37.3±32.8
30 (4–62)
0.05 36.6±32.1
24 (10–58)
0.14 43.1±35.6
27 (16–78)
0.06 17.4±24.0
6 (4–17)
0.33
Composite most
recent panel-
reactive
antibody, %
11164
(94.3)
7.38±18.8
0 (0–2)
8.32±20.4
0 (0–3)
0.046 9.1±20.9
0 (0–9)
<0.001 11.2±22.6
0 (0–9)
<0.001 10.4±22.7
0 (0–6)
<0.001 13.0±25.1
0 (0–11)
<0.001 21.4±31.3
4 (0–33)
<0.001 5.7±12.7
0 (0–4)
0.64

Abbreviations: MCS, mechanical circulatory support; LVAD, left ventricular assist device; BiVAD, biventricular assist device; TAH, total artificial heart; RVAD, right ventricular assist device.

*

P-value compares PRA levels against the baseline: patients without MCS and without prior cardiac surgery