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. 2021 Dec 15;11(12):e051176. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051176

Table 2.

Post-transplant outcomes in solid organ transplant recipients consenting to the STCS

N (%) Total
(5249)
Kidney*
(2972, 56.5%)
Liver
(1164, 22.2%)
Lung
(470, 9.0%)
Heart
(397, 7.6%)
Other
(246, 4.7%)
Follow-up time (years), median (IQR) 4.4 (1.9–7.6) 4.8 (2.2–8) 3.7 (1.4–6.9) 3.8 (1.7–6.6) 3.9 (1.5–7.4) 5.7 (2.4–8.3)
Patient and allograft survival
 Deaths, N (%) 808 (15.4) 314 (10.6) 208 (17.9) 173 (36.8) 75 (18.9) 38 (15.4)
 Time to death (years), median (IQR) 2 (1–5) 3.5 (1.2–6) 1.3 (0.2–3.6) 2.9 (1.1–4.7) 0.3 (0–3) 3.5 (0.9–6.8)
 Patients with graft failure (GF) in first TX, N (%) 538 (10.2) 243 (8.2) 124 (10.7) 84 (17.9) 34 (8.6) 53 (21.5)
 Time to first GF (years), median (IQR) 1.1 (0.1–3.8) 1.8 (0.2–4.8) 0.3 (0–1.7) 2.9 (1.2–4.6) 0 (0–0.1) 0.9 (0–3.2)
 Re-TX† after first GF, N (% of GF) 184 (34.2) 60 (24.7) 84 (67.7) 17 (20.2) 4 (11.8) 19 (35.8)
Post-transplant infectious diseases (ID)
 Patients with any ppv‡ ID episode, N (%) 3387 (64.5) 1920 (64.6) 684 (58.8) 325 (69.1) 273 (68.8) 185 (75.2)
 Average number of episodes, median (IQR) 3 (2–6) 3 (2–5) 3 (1–5) 5 (2–9) 3 (2–5) 3 (2–6)
 Time to first episode (days), median (IQR) 59 (13–240) 82 (23–312) 23 (8–158) 43 (8–149) 32 (8–208) 33 (9–198)
Post-transplant cancer
 Patients with any cancer, N (%) 978 (18.6%) 569 (19.1) 207 (17.8) 99 (21.1) 60 (15.1) 43 (17.5)
 PTLD, N (% of cancer) 68 (7) 29 (5.1) 19 (9.2) 12 (12.1) 4 (6.7) 4 (9.3)
 Any skin cancer, N (% of cancer) 654 (66.9) 423 (74.3) 81 (39.1) 65 (65.7) 53 (88.3) 32 (74.4)
Rejections
 Patients with any rejection in first TX, N (%) 2006 (38.2) 982 (33) 373 (32%) 263 (56) 327 (82.4) 61 (24.8)
 Within 1 year, N (% of rejection) 1616 (80.6) 788 (80.2) 294 (78.8) 191 (72.6) 300 (91.7) 43 (70.5)
 Time to first rejection (days), median (IQR) 76 (15–245) 97 (15–250) 66 (12–290) 84 (24–371) 18 (12–58) 62 (19–523)

*Kidney TX also includes transplants with double kidney.

†A re-TX is a TX with the same allograft that has been transplanted and lost before.

proven, probable or viral syndrome.

GF, graft failure; IQR, interquartile range; PTLD, post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders; STCS, Swiss Transplant Cohort Study; TX, transplantation.