Frequency and Main Diagnoses of Hospitalizations in Patients after Kidney Transplantation
Nephrology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Meeting: 2020 American Transplant Congress
Abstract number: C-233
Keywords: Adenoviruses
Session Information
Session Name: Poster Session C: Quality Assurance Process Improvement & Regulatory Issues
Session Type: Poster Session
Date: Saturday, May 30, 2020
Session Time: 3:15pm-4:00pm
Presentation Time: 3:30pm-4:00pm
Location: Virtual
*Purpose: Kidney transplant recipients (KTR) suffer many complications and are hospitalized frequently. Specific reasons for hospital admission with detailed information are scarce.
*Methods: We retrieved data of 1.526 KTR from our transplant database monitored routinely at our center from 2009 to 2018. We analyzed indications/causes and frequency of hospitalizations.
*Results: Over the 10-year-period, we found a mean of 746±58 hospitalizations/year (Table 1), which are 47%-49% over the years of all KTR of our aftercare and, of which 47%-48% over years were hospitalized via the emergency department. We found a mean hospitalization rate of 0.71±0.09 per patient/year. Further analysis of KTR, with the longest available follow-up (82 cases in 2009 and 105 cases in 2010) demonstrated that the hospitalization rates (HR)/patient and year were highest in the first two years after transplantation (1.38-1.7 HR/patient) and declined thereafter (Figure 2). Within 3-4 years post-transplant, we had 0.48-0.7 HR/patient and we found low and stable HRs of 0.26-0.49/patient/year by the 4th year following kidney transplantation.. The difference of HR/patient within the first two years and the fifth to tenth year is significant with p=0.001 (2-tailed). In 2015 and 2016, KTRs had 362 and 349 different main diagnoses coded for admission. The most frequent reason for admission were acute kidney injury (AKI)/suspected rejection/rejection (2015: 26.43%, 2016: 29.73%), which are uniformly coded in our health care system, followed by infections (2015: 18.86%, 2016: 15.41 %), cardiac (2015: 7.36%, 2016: 6.59%) and gastroenterological complications (2015: 6.98%, 2016: 7.84%).
*Conclusions: KTR have a high rate of hospitalizations particularly within the first years after transplantation. Numerous reasons are leading to admission with main etiologies being AKI/suspected rejection/rejection, infections, and cardiac as well as gastroenterologic complications.
To cite this abstract in AMA style:
Duettmann-Rehnolt W, Glander P, Bach P, Halleck F, Graf V, Lehner L, Duerr M, Mayrdorfer M, Budde K, Naik M. Frequency and Main Diagnoses of Hospitalizations in Patients after Kidney Transplantation [abstract]. Am J Transplant. 2020; 20 (suppl 3). https://atcmeetingabstracts.com/abstract/frequency-and-main-diagnoses-of-hospitalizations-in-patients-after-kidney-transplantation/. Accessed November 14, 2024.« Back to 2020 American Transplant Congress