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Cost-effectiveness of hepatitis C-positive donor kidney transplantation for hepatitis C-negative recipients with concomitant direct-acting antiviral therapy.
American Journal of Transplantation 2018 October
Pilot studies suggest that transplanting hepatitis C virus (HCV)-positive donor (D+) kidneys into HCV-negative renal transplant (RT) recipients (R-), then treating HCV with direct-acting antivirals (DAA) is clinically feasible. To determine whether this is a cost-effective approach, a decision tree model was developed to analyze costs and effectiveness over a 5-year time frame between 2 choices: RT using a D+/R- strategy compared to continuing dialysis and waiting for a HCV-negative donor (D-/R-). The strategy of accepting a HCV+ organ then treating HCV was slightly more effective and substantially less expensive and resulted in an expected 4.8 years of life (YOL) with a cost of ≈$138 000 compared to an expected 4.7 YOL with a cost of ≈$329 000 for the D-/R- strategy. The D+/R- strategy remained dominant after sensitivity analyses including the difference in RT death probabilities or acute rejection probabilities between using D+ vs D- kidney; time that D-/R- patients waited for RT; dialysis death probabilities while waitlisted for RT in the D-/R- strategy; DAA therapy expected cure rate; costs of transplant, immunosuppressives, DAA therapy, dialysis, or acute rejection. The D+/R- strategy followed by treatment with DAA is less costly and slightly more effective compared to the D-/R- strategy.
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