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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Heart Lung Transplant. 2019 May 7;38(8):845–855. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2019.05.001

Table 1.

Characteristics of subjects with A-grade ACR and Other histopathology

Total cohort Training Set Test Set
A-grade ACR Other p-value A-grade ACR Other p-value A-grade ACR Other p-value
Sex, n (%) 0.54 0.86 0.55
 Male 40 (66%) 96 (61%) 30 (65%) 74 (62%) 10 (67%) 22 (56%)
 Female 21 (34%) 62 (39%) 16 (35%) 45 (38%) 4 (33%) 17 (44%)
Age, mean (SD) 58.7 (11.0) 60.1 (11.3) 0.41 59.3 (11.1) 59.7 (11.4) 0.85 56.9 (10.9) 61.4 (10.8) 0.17
Pre-transplant disease, n (%) 0.80 0.93 0.28
 Restrictive 38 (62%) 92 (58%) 27 (59%) 74 (62%) 11 (73%) 18 (46%)
 Obstructive 15 (25%) 43 (27%) 12 (26%) 30 (25%) 3 (20%) 13 (33%)
 CF/Bronchiectasis 2 (3%) 10 (6%) 2 (4%) 5 (4%) 0 (0%) 5 (13%)
 Other 6 (10%) 13 (8%) 5 (11%) 10 (8%) 1 (7%) 3 (8%)
Transplant Type 0.76 0.73 1.00
 Bilateral 34 (56%) 84 (53%) 25 (54%) 61 (51%) 9 (60%) 23 (59%)
 Single 27 (44%) 74 (47%) 21 (46%) 58 (49%) 6 (40%) 16 (41%)
CMV serostatus 0.41 0.55 0.78
 R+/D+ 32 (52%) 70 (44%) 24 (52%) 50 (42%) 8 (53%) 20 (51%)
 R+/D− 14 (23%) 32 (20%) 10 (22%) 24 (20%) 4 (27%) 8 (21%)
 R−/D+ 8 (13%) 36 (23%) 7 (15%) 29 (24%) 1 (7%) 7 (18%)
 R−/D− 7 (12%) 20 (13%) 5 (11%) 16 (13%) 2 (13%) 4 (10%)
Days to Biopsy, mean (SD) 170 (207) 230 (253) 0.10 157 (212) 235 (264) 0.07 213 (194) 216 (219) 0.96
Indication for biopsy, n (%) 0.85 1.00 1.00
 Surveillance 49 (80%) 124 (78%) 38 (83%) 97 (82%) 11 (73%) 27 (69%)
 For cause 12 (20%) 34 (22%) 8(17%) 22 (18%) 4 (27%) 12 (31%)
Induction, n (%) 1.00 0.61 0.37
 ATG 32 (52%) 82 (52%) 23 (50%) 65 (55%) 9 (60%) 17 (44%)
 Basiliximab 29 (48%) 76 (48%) 23 (50%) 54 (45%) 6 (40%) 22 (56%)
Tacrolimus trough, mean (SD) 10.6 (5.4) 9.9 (3.9) 0.32 10.7 (5.6) 10.1 (4.1) 0.46 10.5 (4.9) 9.5 (3.3) 0.45
FEV1 Percent of baseline, Median (IQR) 100 (93–100) 99 (90–100) 0.06 100 (92–100) 99 (90–100) 0.13 100 (95–100) 99 (88–100) 0.23
TBBX histopathology · · ·
 A1 38 (62%) · 29 (63%) · 9 (60%) ·
 A2 17 (28%) · 12 (26%) · 5 (33%) ·
 A3 6 (10%) · 5 (11%) · 1 (7%) ·
 Lymphocytic Bronchiolitis 27 (44%) 70 (44%) 22 (48%) 52 (44%) 5 (33%) 18 (46%)
Infection · 41 (26%) · · 34 (29%) · · 7 (18%)
 Respiratory virus* · 10 (6%) · 8 (7%) · 2 (5%)
 Bacterial** · 19 (12%) · 18 (15%) · 1 (3%)
 Fungal*** · 12 (8%) · 8 (7%) · 4 (10%)
*

3 Coronavirus, 3 parainfluenza, 2 rhinovirus, 1 Respiratory syncytial virus, 1 Influenza A.

**

13 P. aeruginosa, 3 E. coli, 2 H. influenzae, 1 K. pneumonia

***

8 A. fumigatus, 3 A. niger, 1 A. nidulans