Luke Kosinski, Eric Frey, Amanda Klein, Inish O'Doherty, Klaus Romero, Mark Stegall, Ilkka Helanterä, Osama Gaber, William E Fitzsimmons, Varun Aggarwal
Kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for individuals with end-stage kidney disease. From a modeling perspective, our understanding of kidney function trajectories after transplantation remains limited. Current modeling of kidney function post-transplantation is focused on linear slopes or percent decline and often excludes the highly-variable early time points post-transplantation, where kidney function recovers and then stabilizes. Using estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), a well-known biomarker of kidney function, from an aggregated dataset of 4,904 kidney transplant patients including both observational studies and clinical trials, we developed a longitudinal model of kidney function trajectories from time of transplant to six-years post-transplant...
June 23, 2023: Clinical and Translational Science