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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Transplant. 2018 May 9;18(12):2934–2944. doi: 10.1111/ajt.14871

Table 1.

Baseline demographic, clinico-pathologic data, and DSA characteristics of study patients by C3d status.

All (N=106) C3d− (N=25) C3d+ (N=81) P-value

Patient Characteristics

Gender (% male) 54.7% 52% 55.6% 0.82

Age at transplant (mean ± std) 39.6 ± 15.5 43.6 ± 13.9 38.3 ± 15.8 0.14

Age at enrollment (mean ± std) 44.4 ± 14.9 46.9 ± 14.2 43.7 ± 15.1 0.35

Race:
 White (%) 65.1% 80% 60.5% 0.19
 Black (%) 23.6% 12% 27.2%
 Other (%) 11.3% 8% 12.3%

Time to biopsy (yrs) 5.3 ± 5.0 3.92 ± 3.42 5.66 ± 5.38 0.13

No. HLA A/B/DRB1 mismatches 3.86 ± 1.46 3.59 ± 1.53 3.95 ± 1.43 0.32

Creatinine at biopsy (mg/dL) 2.71 ± 1.60 2.08 ± 0.89 2.88 ± 1.71 0.03

Creatinine at biopsy (μmol/L) 239.2 ± 141.6 183.8 ± 78.7 254.9 ± 151.6 0.03

Protein/Cr ratio (mg/g) 1515.0 ± 1696.0 923.0 ± 1110.1 1735.3 ± 1830.0 0.10

Protein/Cr ratio (mg/mmol) 171.2 ± 191.6 104.3 ± 125.4 196.1 ± 206.8 0.10

DSA Characteristics (%)

Class I only 5.7% 4% 6.2%

Class II only 69.8% 80% 66.7%

Class I and II 24.5% 16% 27.1%

DSA to HLA-A 9.6% 5.3% 10.5%

DSA to HLA-B 10.0% 7.9% 10.5%

DSA to HLA-C 0.9% 0% 1.1%

DSA to HLA-DR 38.4% 34.2% 39.2%

DSA to HLA-DQ 41.1% 52.6% 38.7%

Number of DSA (mean ± std) 2.1 ± 1.4 1.5 ± 0.7 2.2 ± 1.5 0.02

Biopsy Banff Scores (mean ± std)

g 0.63 ± 0.74 0.72 ± 0.84 0.59 ± 0.71 0.46

ptc 1.27 ± 0.93 1.26 ± 0.93 1.27 ± 0.94 0.98

t 0.95 ± 1.17 0.96 ± 1.17 0.95 ± 1.18 0.97

i 1.02 ± 1.11 0.96 ± 1.14 1.04 ± 1.11 0.76

v 0.10 ± 0.36 0.04 ± 0.20 0.11 ± 0.39 0.37

cg 0.69 ± 1.06 0.44 ± 0.82 0.77 ± 1.12 0.17

ci 1.39 ± 1.00 1.08 ± 0.70 1.49 ± 1.06 0.07

ct 1.56 ± 0.86 1.20 ± 0.65 1.67 ± 0.89 0.02

Microvascular inflammation (%)a 78.9% 76.0% 79.7% 0.78

Moderate-severe IFTA (%)b 37.7% 20.0% 44.3% 0.035

C4d+ (%) 62.4% 29.2% 72.7% 0.0002
a

g+ptc >0;

b

ci+ct ≥2.