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19 September 2021: Clinical Research  

Risk Factors and Prognosis of New-Onset Chronic Kidney Disease Following Orthotopic Liver Transplantation: A Retrospective Case-Control Study

Yi Duan ORCID logo1BCD, Zuozhi Li2EF, Xiaoyu Wang1BF, Lei Cui1B, Zhifeng Gao ORCID logo1A*, Huan Zhang1A

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.931834

Med Sci Monit 2021; 27:e931834

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: We have undertaken this investigation to explore the perioperative risk factors of new-onset chronic kidney disease (NOCKD) after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT), and to provide an early prediction model for the screening of NOCKD high-risk populations.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: A retrospective case-control study was performed in adult recipients who received OLT in our center between January 2018 and January 2020. Perioperative data were collected using the center’s electronic medical record system. Logistics regression analysis was used to determine risk factors for NOCKD within 1 year following OLT. Kaplan-Meier and log-rank tests were used to evaluate the 1-year survival of recipients with NOCKD or without NOCKD.

RESULTS: A total of 174 patients were included in this study, and 29 patients developed NOCKD after OLT. Logistic multivariate regression analysis showed that preoperative diabetes, high model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score, postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI), and postoperative renal replacement therapy (RRT) were independent risk factors for NOCKD 1 year after OLT. The 1-year survival rate of NOCKD recipients waas significantly lower than that of patients who did not receive NOCKD.

CONCLUSIONS: Diabetes mellitus, MELD score, postoperative AKI, and requirement for postoperative RRT are independent risk factors for NOCKD after OLT, which may have great potential for personalized decision making and predicting the 1-year postoperative mortality of the recipient.

Keywords: Diabetes Mellitus, Liver Transplantation, Renal Insufficiency, Chronic, Acute Kidney Injury, Case-Control Studies, Female, Humans, Postoperative Complications, Renal Replacement Therapy, Risk Assessment, Risk Factors, Severity of Illness Index

Background

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global public health issue, which also widely occurs among transplant recipients. Convincing evidence suggests that a large number of recipients experience renal function decline after organ transplantation [1], and a considerable number of them will progress to CKD [2]. The incidence of CKD within 1 year after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is 4.0% to 27.5% [3], second only to the rates in heart and lung transplantation recipients. CKD may further develop into end-stage renal disease (ESRD), requiring several years of renal replacement therapy (RRT) or even kidney transplantation, which causes a heavy social and economic burden [4] and adversely impacts quality of life. In addition, CKD is associated with an increased incidence of cardiovascular events following transplantation and leads to increased readmission and mortality risk [5]. Thus, there is an urgent need for analysis and insight into the causes of and a potential prediction model for CKD after OLT [6–8].

Previous studies suggested that age, female, hypertension, diabetes, model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score, preoperative glomerular filtration rate, hemoglobin levels, and duration of renal impairment are correlated with the onset and progression of CKD in patients with cirrhosis [9–12]. However, the risk factors and their effects on CKD remain controversial. Moreover, most previous studies focused on transplant recipients with preoperative renal dysfunction. Postoperative CKD may be attributable to preoperative renal parenchymal injury. Nevertheless, little is known about perioperative risk factors for NOCKD in patients without CKD prior to OLT. Defining the risk factors for NOCKD after OLT may facilitate early identification of potential high-risk groups, help personalize perioperative anesthesia management, and avoid the use of nephrotoxic drugs such as calcineurin inhibitors (CNI) in postoperative treatment [8,13], so as to improve prognosis and short- and long-term survival rates. Moreover, in Asian countries there are no available prediction models that can identify patients at increased risk of NOCKD and related poor prognosis after OLT based only on their perioperative characteristics. This study aimed to retrospectively analyze the perioperative risk factors of NOCKD after OLT in adults with preoperative estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) ≥60 ml/min/1.73 m2, and to provide an early prediction model for the screening of NOCKD high-risk groups.

Material and Methods

STUDY DESIGN AND POPULATION:

This single-center, retrospective study included all consecutive adult patients who underwent LT between 1 January 2018 and 1 February 2020. All recipients were tested for serum creatinine levels and assessed for eGFR prior to transplantation, 1 to 7 days after transplantation, and 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after transplantation, according to the conventional treatment strategy. Patients who underwent the following procedures were excluded: (1) Patients under 18 years of age, (2) Renal replacement treatment before OLT or baseline eGFR <60 ml/(min·1.73·m2), (3) Survival less than 3 months, (4) Lack of important data, (5) Surgery cancelled after anesthesia. The requirement for informed consent was waived for this study.

DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA FOR ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY (AKI) AND NOCKD:

According to the revised definition of AKI in patients with cirrhosis by the Kidney Disease Improvement Global Outcomes Organization (KDIGO) [14] and the recommendation of the International Club of ASCITES (ICA) [15], AKI is defined as increase in serum creatinine (sCr) by ≥26.4 μmol/L (0.3 mg/dL) in <48 h or 50% increase in sCr from baseline, which is known or presumed to have occurred within the prior 7 days (the baseline value refers to the stable value within 3 months before surgery. If not available, the measured value at admission was used. Stage 1 refers to sCr increase 1.5–1.9 times baseline, or Cr increase ≥0.3 mg/dl (26.5 μmol/L); stage 2 refers to sCr increase 2.0–2.9 times baseline; and stage 3 refers to sCr increase 3.0 times baseline, or sCr increase to ≥4.0 mg/dl (353.6 μmol/L), or initiation of renal replacement therapy.

According to the 2012 KDIGO [16] guideline for the diagnosis and management of adults and children with CKD, the diagnostic criteria for CKD is eGFR <60 ml/(min·1.73·m2) for >3 months. In this study, NOCKD was defined as the diagnosis of CKD after OLT in recipients with preoperative eGFR ≥60 mL/(min·1.73·m2).

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE MANAGEMENT:

Methylprednisolone was administered in a 500-mg intravenous bolus 30 min before graft reperfusion. Following liver transplantation, patients were maintained on MMF-, tacrolimus-, and prednisone-based immunosuppressive therapy. The tacrolimus concentration was maintained at 8–10 ng/ml for 3 months after the operation. MMF was administrated at 0.5 g b.i.d. in the first 3 months and then reduced to 0.25 g. MMF was slowly discontinued at 6 months after transplantation. Methylprednisolone was administered orally at 240 mg, reduced by 40 mg daily until reduced to 40 mg daily. Then, methylprednisolone was changed to oral prednisolone 20 mg daily, reduced by 2.5 mg weekly until reduced to 5 mg and maintained for 1 month, and stopped thereafter.

In patients with hepatitis C or malignant tumors, tacrolimus trough levels were maintained at 6~8 ng/ml within 3 months after the operation. MMF was administered at 0.5 g b.i.d. until the end of the third month. Prednisone was reduced by 5 mg weekly for 1 month, and stopped thereafter.

For patients with renal insufficiency after transplantation, 20 mg Basiliximab was administered on post-transplant day 1 and day 4, without CNI administration. If the arterial condition was good, rapamycin (a mTOR inhibitor) was given orally at the dose of 2 mg per day 1 week after surgery. If the arterial condition was poor, MMF was used alone and increased to 1 g every 12 h, and then gradually changed to rapamycin or rapamycin combined with MMF 1 month after liver transplantation.

DATA COLLECTION:

The following data were collected through the outpatient or inpatient electronic medical records of the Hospital Information System (HIS), the Docare Anesthesia Clinical Information System (V5.0) and follow-up visits:

Preoperative basic information: recipient age, sex, body mass index (BMI), MELD score, complications including acute liver failure, ascites, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and coronary heart disease, as well as type of the primary disease (eg, post-hepatitis B cirrhosis, post-hepatitis C cirrhosis, alcoholic cirrhosis and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, liver hydatid disease, liver cancer), preoperative hemoglobin level, preoperative albumin level, preoperative total bilirubin level, preoperative glutamic-pyruvic transaminase level, preoperative sCr, preoperative international normalized ratio (INR), preoperative serum sodium levels, donor age, and warm and cold ischemia time.

Intraoperative and anesthetic information included operation duration, portal vein occlusion time, amount of crystal fluid infusion, 5% albumin infusion, red blood cell infusion, fresh frozen plasma infusion, blood loss, urine volume, norepinephrine dosage, and duration of intraoperative minimum blood pressure.

Postoperative outcome information included postoperative anti-rejection treatment, incidence and severity of AKI, rate of postoperative RRT, length of postoperative ICU stay, postoperative hospital stay, postoperative incidence of CKD within 1 year, and postoperative cause of death and mortality within 1 year.

FOLLOW-UP:

Patients were followed and events recorded until 31 January 2021 and/or death.

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS:

Data were analyzed using SPSS 26.0 statistical software. Normally distributed data were expressed as mean±standard deviation (SD) and compared by independent-sample t test, while nonnormally distributed data were expressed as median and interquartile range (IQR) and compared by Mann-Whitney U test. Categorical data were analyzed using chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test. Risk factors were analyzed by binary logistics regression analysis. The receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve was used to analyze the model performance. Survival analysis was performed using Kaplan-Meier and log-rank tests. P<0.05 was considered statistically significant.

ETHICS:

The study was approved by the Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital Ethics Committee (approval number: 21017-6-01) and the requirement the informed consent was waived by Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital Ethics Committee. Our study was carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (2013) of the World Medical Association and followed the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) reporting guideline for human observational studies.

Results

A total of 235 patients who underwent orthotopic allogeneic OLT in our center were included in the study. Among them, 3 recipients were younger than 18 years old, 38 recipients received preoperative renal replacement therapy or preoperative eGFR <60 mL/(min·1.73·m2), 16 recipients died within 3 months after surgery, 3 recipients had incomplete case information, and 1 recipient cancelled the OLT. A total of 174 patients were included in the study for data analysis (Figure 1). We identified 54 patients (31.0%) who developed AKI within 1 week after surgery, with stage 1 in 19 patients, stage 2 in 17 patients, and stage 3 in 18 patients. In this study, a total of 29 (16.7%) recipients developed NOCKD after OLT.

Recipients were divided into a NOCKD group and a non-CKD group according to whether they were diagnosed with NOCKD after surgery. Univariate analysis showed that the preoperative prevalence of diabetes was higher in the NOCKD group (55.2% vs 15.2%, P<0.01) and the preoperative hemoglobin level was lower in the NOCKD group (96.83±27.51 g/L vs 111.64±25.78 g/L, P<0.01). The preoperative MELD score was higher in the NOCKD group (21.14±12.69 vs 12.75±6.03, P<0.01). The NOCKD group had higher volumes of infused fresh frozen plasma (FFP) during surgery [600 (400, 800) ml vs 400 (0, 700) ml, P<0.01, Table 1].

No immunosuppressant toxicity-related AKI was observed in NOCKD group and non-CKD group. The incidence of AKI in the NOCKD group was higher than that in the non-CKD group within 1 week after OLT (75.9% vs 22.1%, P<0.01). The incidence of stage 2 and stage 3 AKI in the NOCKD group was also significantly higher (P<0.01). In addition, patients in the NOCKD group had higher demand for RRT after transplantation than the non-CKD group (25% vs 2.2%, P<0.01, Table 2). Associations between variables and NOCKD were visualized using a heatmap (Figure 2), which illustrated that diabetes, MELD score, baseline hemoglobin, baseline albumin, fresh frozen plasma, postoperative AKI, and postoperative RRT were factors correlated with NOCKD.

The results of regression analyses are shown in Table 3. Preoperative diabetes, MELD score, postoperative AKI, and postoperative RRT were independent risk factors for NOCKD. A prediction model containing the 4 variables was developed using multivariable logistic regression analyses. The formula of the original model was: R=−3.616+1.188× (diabetes)+0.084× (preoperative MELD score)+1.269×(postoperative AKI)+2.524× (postoperative RRT).

R was divided by 0.084 to obtain the predictive factor R1[R1=(preoperative MELD score) −43+14 (if preoperative diabetes)+15 (if postoperative AKI)+30 (if postoperative RRT required)]. The ROC curve was further obtained (Figure 3A, AUC: 0.879, 95% CI: 0.802~0.957). The lower the value of R1, the lower the risk of NOCKD within 1 year after surgery. The cutoff value was −17 (Figure 3B).

There were 174 recipients followed up for 6–34 months, and the median follow-up duration was 21 months. A total of 150 patients were followed up for 1 year, and the 1-year survival rate was 96.0%. During the follow-up, 6 patients died, among which 3 patients had multiple organ failure, 2 patients had respiratory complications, and 1 patient had cerebral hemorrhage. Log-rank survival statistics showed that the 1-year survival rate in the NOCKD group was significantly lower than that in the non-CKD group (88.9% vs 97.6%, P=0.036, Figure 4A). Moreover, a similar 1-year survival pattern was observed when stratified by R1, suggesting that R1 ≤-17 may be a promising predictive tool to help provide early prevention of NOCKD (90.2% vs 99.0%, P=0.01, Figure 4B).

Discussion

LIMITATIONS:

There are several limitations to the present study. First, this was a single-center study, so bias may exist due to lack of data from other centers. Second, the sample size of this study was relatively small. With the development of the transplantation center in our hospital, more patients can be included in future studies. Third, the median length of follow-up was 21 months, which was relatively short. Our further studies will extend the follow-up period and continue to observe the incidence of CKD at 3 and 5 years postoperatively, as well as the outcomes of CKD. Finally, the prediction model in this study should be validated in future prospective studies.

Conclusions

In conclusion, diabetes mellitus, MELD score, postoperative AKI, and requirement for postoperative RRT are independent risk factors for NOCKD in OLT recipients, which may be clinically significant to predict 1-year postoperative mortality. The model established in this study may facilitate early identification of the high-risk population of NOCKD after OLT, establishment of perioperative renal protection strategy, evidence for early reduction or cessation of immunosuppressive agents with nephrotoxicity, and improvement of prognosis.

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