Preoperative Toxoplasma gondii serostatus does not affect long-term survival of cardiac transplant recipients. Analysis of the Spanish Heart Transplantation Registry

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  • Barge-Caballero, E
  • Crespo-Leiro, MG
  • Brossa-Loidi, V
  • Rangel-Sousa, D
  • Gomez-Bueno, M
  • Farrero-Torres, M
  • Diaz-Molina, B
  • Delgado-Jimenez, J
  • Martinez-Selles, M
  • Lopez-Granados, A
  • De-la-Fuente-Galan, L
  • Gonzalez-Costello, J
  • Garrido-Bravo, IP
  • Blasco-Peiro, T
  • Rabago-Juan-Aracil, G
  • Gonzalez-Vilchez, F

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Background: It's unclear whether pre-transplant T. gondii seropositivity is associated with impaired survival in heart transplant recipients. Objectives: To test the above-mentioned hypothesis in the Spanish Heart Transplantation Registry. Methods: Post-transplant outcomes of 4048 patients aged >16 years who underwent first, single-organ heart transplantation in 17 Spanish institutions from 1984 to 2014 were studied. Long-term post-transplant survival and survival free of cardiac death or retransplantation of 2434 (60%) T. gondii seropositive recipients and 1614 (40%) T. gondii seronegative recipients were compared. Results: T. gondii seropositive recipients were older, had higher body mass index, and presented higher prevalence of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, COPD and Cytomegalovirus seropositivity than T. gondii seronegative recipients. In univariable analysis, pre-transplant T. gondii seropositivity was associated with increased post-transplant all-cause mortality (non-adjusted HR 1.15; 95% CI 1.04-1.26). However, this effect was no longer statistically significant after multivariable adjustment by recipient's age and sex (adjusted HR 1.01, 95% CI 0.92-1.11). Extended multivariable adjustment by other potential confounders showed similar results (adjusted HR 0.99, 95% CI 0.89-1.11). T. gondii seropositivity had no significant effect on the composite outcome cardiac death or retransplantation (non-adjusted HR 1.08, 95% CI 0.95-1.24, p = 0.235). The distribution of the causes of death was comparable in T. gondii seropositive and T. gondii seronegative recipients. No statistically significant impact of donor's T. gondii serostatus or donor-recipient T. gondii serostatus matching on post-transplant survival was observed. Conclusions: Our analysis did not show a significant independent effect of preoperative T. gondii serostatus on long-term outcomes after heart transplantation. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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ISSN/ISSNe:
0167-5273, 1874-1754

International Journal of Cardiology  ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD

Tipo:
Article
Páginas:
183-187
PubMed:
29031991
Factor de Impacto:
0,990 SCImago
Cuartil:
Q2 SCImago

Citas Recibidas en Web of Science: 4

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  • Heart transplantation; Toxoplasma gondii; Outcomes; Survival

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