Table 1.
Patient characteristics compared between sequential and conventional group
| Variable | Tolerant patients | Conventional RT | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matched | SMD | Pre‐matching | SMD | ||
| Number of patients | 22 | 20 | — | 707 | — |
| Age at RT* (y) | 33 (14) | 33 (15) | 4% | 39 (17) | 33% |
| Age of kidney donor* (y) | 46 (13) | 47 (11) | 5% | 49 (11) | 27% |
| Sex match at renal transplantation* (matched) | 12 (55%) | 12 (60%) | 10% | 268 (38%) | 23% |
| Sex (female) | 10 (46%) | 8 (40%) | 10% | 241 (34%) | 35% |
| Overall serum creatinine after RT (μmol/l) | 85 (72, 99) | 118 (99, 143) | — | 142 (115, 178) | — |
| Median total follow‐up time (y) | 10 (7, 22) | 11 (10, 14) | — | 7 (4, 13) | — |
| Mean number of mismatched HLA antigens at RT* | 0 (0) | 0.3 (0.5) | 84% | 2.9 (1.6) | 172% |
| Mean number of mismatched HLA antigens at HSCT | 1 (1.3) | — | |||
| Age at HSCT (y) | 23 (17, 30) | — | |||
| Time between HSCT and RT (y) | 5 (3, 9) | — | |||
| Median IS free amount of follow‐up (%) | 90 (59, 100) | Patients are treated with immunosuppression throughout follow‐up | |||
Patient characteristics compared between the tolerant and conventional groups. Standardized mean differences were computed to quantify the difference between the groups before and after matching. Variables noted by * were used in the matching procedure. Data presented by mean (standard deviation), median (first quartile, third quartile), or absolute frequency (relative frequency).