Left atrial diameter and survival among renal allograft recipients.

Kainz A(1,3), Goliasch, G(2), Wiesbauer F(2), Binder T(2), Maurer G(2), Nesser H-J(4), Mascherbauer R(4), Ebner C(4), Kramar R(5), Wilflingseder J(1), Oberbauer R(1,3,5).

1- Department of Nephrology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
2- Deparment of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
3- Department of Nephrology, KH Elisabethinen, Linz, Austria
4- Austrian Dialysis and Transplant Registry, Linz, Austria


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Webtable 1:
Webtable 1:

Comparing demographics between study cohort and subjects without echocardiographic evaluation. Values represent count (percentage), mean (standard deviation) or median (25th, 75th percentile).
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Webfigure 1:
Webfigure 1:

(a) Kaplan-Meier plot for mortality stratified by LA2D median and censored graft loss. (b) Kaplan-Meier plot of mortality stratified by LA2D median (53 mm). In this plot also patients who died in the first year are included.
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Webtable 2:
Webtable 2:

Hazard ratio and 95% confidence interval of echo parameters and demographic parameters in univariate models.
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Webfigure 2:
Webfigure 2:

Log hazard ratio for left atrial diameter as a spline curve in the model for mortality. There is no non-linearity evident. Therefore we used the linear model for further evaluation.
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Webtable 3:
Webtable 3:

Multivariate Cox model with year of transplantation added, which was not included by the purposeful selection algorithm.
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Webtable 4:
Webtable 4:

Hazard ratio and 95% confidence interval for mortality in a cause specific model and a competing risk model (Fine and Gray model). In these analyses only cardiac death was counted as event.
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