Table 6.
The Patient and Graft Survival Rates throughout Follow-up Time and the Causes of Graft Failure
| Characteristics | PKT group (n = 5) |
HD group (n = 104) |
PD group (n = 98) |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transplatation outcomes, %(n) | ||||
| Patient survival | 100.0(5/5) | 96.2(100/104) | 96.9(95/98) | 1.000 |
| Graft survival | 100.0(5/5) | 93.3(97/104) | 93.9(92/98) | 0.860 |
| Death-censored graft survival | 100.0(5/5) | 97.1(101/104) | 96.9(95/98) | 1.000 |
| Causes of graft failure, % (n) | < 0.001* | |||
| Acute rejection | 0(0/0) | 0(0/7) | 28.6(2/7) | |
| Severe infection | 0(0/0) | 28.6(2/7) | 57.1(4/7) | |
| Primary failure | 0(0/0) | 0(0/7) | 14.3(1/7) | |
| Surgical complications | 0(0/0) | 57.1(4/7) | 0(0/7) | |
| Others | 0(0/0) | 14.3(1/7) | 0(0/7) | |
P-value, between hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis group; *, statistically significant
PKT pre-emptive kidney transplantation, HD hemodialysis, PD peritoneal dialysis