The Survival Benefit of Simultaneous Heart-Kidney Transplantation Extends Beyond Dialysis-Dependent Patients Arman Kilic, MD, Joshua C. Grimm, MD, Glenn J.R. Whitman, MD, Ashish S. Shah, MD, Kaushik Mandal, MD, John V. Conte, MD, Christopher M. Sciortino, MD, PhD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 99, Issue 4, Pages 1321-1327 (April 2015) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.09.026 Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Trends in the use of simultaneous heart-kidney transplant (SHK) by stratified cohort. (GFR = glomerular filtration rate.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2015 99, 1321-1327DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.09.026) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Kaplan-Meier 5-year and 10-year survival for patients undergoing heart transplant alone (HTA; solid line) vs simultaneous heart-kidney transplant (SHK; dashed line) in patients with (A) a preoperative glomerular filtration rate (GFR) of 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 or more, (B) a preoperative GFR of less than 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 at low risk for postoperative new-onset dialysis, (C) a preoperative GFR of less than 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 at high risk for postoperative new-onset dialysis, or (D) dialysis before transplantation. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2015 99, 1321-1327DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.09.026) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions