Transplantation for primary hyperoxaluria in the United States.
BACKGROUND
Transplantation (TX) has become an acceptable treatment for renal failure in primary hyperoxaluria (PH). We have analyzed data from three U.S. sources to estimate the success or failure of different modes of management in PH patients.


METHODS
The United States Renal Data System (USRDS) tapes provided coded medical record data, with PH assigned to 235 patients from 1974 to 1996. Another 45 patients were found from USRDS hospitalization records. We limited patients to those developing end-stage renal disease at <55 years of age after 1984 (95 PH patients). The North American Pediatric Renal Transplantation Cooperative Study (NAPRTCS) identified 34 (11 new) PH patients, and the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database identified PH in 34 (16 new, 5 more in both UNOS and NAPRTCS) patients. These secondary sources were used to correct some data from the USRDS and to add 32 more patients, with a total of 128 PH patients. Considering kidney TX (KTX) prior to combined kidney/liver TX (K/LTX) as a separate record for some calculations, the total "cases" were 138.


RESULTS
By life table analysis, the 94 total TX patient survival was better than for the 34 NoTX patients (P<0.001). The 52 KTX patients' survival was better than either the 32 primary K/LTX (P<0.001) or the 10 K/LTX that following KTX (P<0.001). The 62 KTX cases' survival was better than the 42 K/LTX cases (P<0.005), which did not differ from the 34 NoTX (P<0.67). The overall survival of these 62 KTX patients was 76%. The survival of 42 K/LTX was 69%, and the survival of 34 NoTX patients was 44%. Kidney graft life table projected survival curves for TX patients did not differ between K/LTX (56% at 6 years) and isolated KTX (51% at 6 years, 35% at 10 years, P<0.91).


CONCLUSIONS
KTX offers better patient survival in the United States then either K/LTX or NoTX. Graft survival does not differ between KTX and K/LTX. Because K/LTX can still follow a failed KTX, isolated living related donor KTX is still a reasonable first option for PH type 1 if a strictly managed protocol is followed.
Saborio
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Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA.
Scheinman
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D006960:Hyperoxaluria, Primary / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000401:mortality; D015993:Life Tables; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000401:mortality; D008875:Middle Aged; D015996:Survival Rate; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology