Model Comparisons of Competing Risk and Recurrent Events for Graft Failure in Renal Transplant Recipients

[摘要] Background and objectives Risk factor analysis of long-term graft survival in kidney transplant recipients is usually based on Cox regression models of time to first occurrence of doubling of serum creatinine or graft loss (DSCGL). However, death is a competing cause of failure, and censoring patients who die could bias estimates. We therefore compared estimates of time to first event versus estimates that included death as a competing risk and recurrent events.

[学科分类] 泌尿医学

[关键词] Bone marrow necrosis;Sickle cell disease;Hyperhemolysis syndrome