By: Andrew Lobashevsky, Laila Abdel-Wareth, Matthias Niemann, Brenda Kowinski, Nancy Higgins, Basel Atrabulsi, David Roe, Chadi Hage
Published: in Clinical Transplantation 2022.
Patients: 220
Highlights:
- 220 lung transplant recipients
- higher DSA incidence when Eplet numbers or PIRCHE-II numbers exceed certain thresholds
- multivariate Cox proportional hazard analysis found PIRCHE-II score being an independent predictor of dnDSA
- PIRCHE-II was shown to be useful in predicting separate dnDSA against Class I and Class II