Donor-recipient weight and sex mismatch and the risk of graft loss in renal transplantation.

Journal article

Background and objectives

Relatively smaller kidney donor to recipient size is proposed to result in higher graft loss due to nephron underdosing and hyperfiltration injury, but the potentially additive effect of sex and weight mismatch has not been explored in detail. The purpose of this study was to determine if concurrent donor and recipient absolute weight and sex mismatch was associated with graft loss in a cohort of deceased donor kidney transplant recipients.

Design, setting, participants, and measurements

The association of kidney donor and recipient absolute weight and sex difference with death-censored graft loss was explored using a cohort of United States deceased donor recipients between 2000-2014 through the Scientific Registry of Transplants Recipients (SRTR). Donor-recipient sex pairings (male donor-male recipient; female donor-female recipient; male donor-female recipient; female donor-male recipient) were further stratified by donor and recipient absolute weight difference (>30 kg or 10-30 kg (donor < recipient; donor > recipient) or <10 kg (donor = recipient)) resulting in 20 weight and sex pairings. Time to death-censored graft loss for each pairing was evaluated using multivariable Cox Proportional Hazards models adjusting for donor, immunological, surgical and recipient predictors of graft loss compared to the reference group of male donor-male recipients with no weight mismatch (<10 kg difference).

Results

21,261 of 115,124 kidney transplant recipients developed death-censored graft failure, (median graft survival time was 3.8 years, Q1-Q3 0.0-14.8 years). After multivariable adjustment, the highest relative hazards for graft failure were observed for female recipients of male donor kidneys and male recipients of female donor kidneys in situations where the recipient was >30 kg larger than donor (HR 1.50 95% CI [1.32-1.70], HR 1.35 95% CI [1.25-1.45], respectively).

Conclusions

A concurrent mismatch in donor-recipient weight (donor

Authors: Miller, A; Kiberd, B; Alwayn, I; Odutayo, A; Tennankore, K

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: American Society for Nephrology
• Journal: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 669-676
• Publication date: 2017-04-03
• Acceptance date: 2017-01-03
• DOI: 10.2215/CJN.07660716
• EISSN: 1555-905X
• ISSN: 1555-9041
• Language: English
• Keywords: tissue donors; size mismatch; graft failure; kidney; female; graft survival; transplant recipients; kidney transplantation; sex characteristics; proportional hazards models; registries; nephrons; male; sex mismatch; United States