Improved Survival in Liver Transplant Patients Receiving Prolonged-release Tacrolimus-based Immunosuppression in the European Liver Transplant Registry (ELTR): An Extension Study

René Adam, Vincent Karam, Valérie Cailliez, Pavel Trunečka, Didier Samuel, Giuseppe Tisone, Petr Němec, Olivier Soubrane, Stefan Schneeberger, Bruno Gridelli, Wolf O Bechstein, Andrea Risaliti, Pal-Dag Line, Marco Vivarelli, Massimo Rossi, Jacques Pirenne, Jurgen L Klempnauer, Aleh Rummo, Fabrizio Di Benedetto, Krzysztof ZieniewiczRoberto Troisi, Andreas Paul, Toomas Vali, Otto Kollmar, Karim Boudjema, Emir Hoti, Michele Colledan, Johan Pratschke, Hauke Lang, Irinel Popescu, Bo-Goran Ericzon, Kestutis Strupas, Paolo De Simone, Eberhard Kochs, Bruno Heyd, Jean Gugenheim, Antonio D Pinna, William Bennet, Mirjalal Kazimi, Philippe Bachellier, Stephen J Wigmore, Allan Rasmussen, Pierre-Alain Clavien, Ernest Hidalgo, John G O'Grady, Frausto Zamboni, Murat Kilic, Christophe Duvoux, all contributing centers (www.eltr.org) and the European Liver and Intestine Transplant Association (ELITA)

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    Abstract

    BACKGROUND: We compared, through the European Liver Transplant Registry, long-term liver transplantation outcomes with prolonged-release tacrolimus (PR-T) versus immediate-release tacrolimus (IR-T)-based immunosuppression. This retrospective analysis comprises up to 8-year data collected between 2008 and 2016, in an extension of our previously published study.

    METHODS: Patients with <1 month follow-up were excluded; patients were propensity score matched for baseline characteristics. Efficacy measures included: univariate/multivariate analyses of risk factors influencing graft/patient survival up to 8 years posttransplantation, and graft/patient survival up to 4 years with PR-T versus IR-T. Overall, 13 088 patients were included from 44 European centers; propensity score-matched analyses comprised 3006 patients (PR-T: n = 1002; IR-T: n = 2004).

    RESULTS: In multivariate analyses, IR-T-based immunosuppression was associated with reduced graft survival (risk ratio, 1.49; P = 0.0038) and patient survival (risk ratio, 1.40; P = 0.0215). There was improvement with PR-T versus IR-T in graft survival (83% versus 77% at 4 y, respectively; P = 0.005) and patient survival (85% versus 80%; P = 0.017). Patients converted from IR-T to PR-T after 1 month had a higher graft survival rate than patients receiving IR-T at last follow-up (P < 0.001), or started and maintained on PR-T (P = 0.019). One graft loss in 4 years was avoided for every 14.3 patients treated with PR-T versus IR-T.

    CONCLUSIONS: PR-T-based immunosuppression might improve long-term outcomes in liver transplant recipients than IR-T-based immunosuppression.

    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TidsskriftTransplantation
    Vol/bind103
    Udgave nummer9
    Sider (fra-til)1844-1862
    Antal sider19
    ISSN0041-1337
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - sep. 2019

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