Myocardial Infarction after Kidney Transplantation: A Risk and Specific Profile Analysis from a Nationwide French Medical Information Database
Open Access
- 18 October 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in Journal of Clinical Medicine
- Vol. 9 (10), 3356
- https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9103356
Abstract
Introduction: Renal transplant recipients have a high peri-operative risk for cardiovascular events. The post-transplantation period also carries a risk of myocardial infarction (MI). Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a leading cause of death in these patients. We aimed to assess the risk of MI, the specific morbidity profile of MI after transplantation as well as the long-term prognosis after MI in renal transplantation (RT) patients regarding cardiovascular (CV) death and all-cause death. Methods: From a French national medical information database, all of the patients seen in French hospitals in 2013 with at least 5-years follow-up were retrospectively identified and patients without transplantation but with previous dialysis at baseline were excluded. There were 17,526 patients with RT and 3,288,857 with no RT. Results: Among these patients, 1020 in the RT group (5.8%), and 93,320 in the non-RT group (2.8%) suffered acute MI during a median follow-up of 5.4 years. After multivariable adjustment, risk of MI was higher in RT patients than in non-RT patients (HR 1.45, IC 95% 1.35–1.55). The mean age was 59.5 years for transplant patients with MI, and 70.6 years for the reference population with MI (p < 0.0001). MI patients with RT (vs. non RT patients) were more likely to have hypertension, diabetes dyslipidemia, and peripheral artery disease (76.0% vs. 48.1%, 38.7% vs. 25.2%, 33.2% vs. 23.2%, and 31.2% vs. 17.3%, respectively, p < 0.0001). Incidence of non ST-elevation MI (NSTEMI) was higher in RT patients while incidence of ST-elevation MI (STEMI) was higher in patients without RT. In unadjusted analysis, risk of all-cause death and CV death within the first month after MI were higher in patients without RT (18% vs. 11.1% p < 0.0001 and 12.3% vs. 7.8%, p < 0.0001, respectively). However, multivariable analysis indicated that risk of all-cause death was higher in patients with RT than in those with no RT (adjusted HR 1.15 IC 95% 1.03–1.28). Conclusions: MI is not an uncommon complication after RT (incidence of around 5.8% after 5 years). RT is independently associated with a 45% higher risk of MI than in patients without RT, with a predominance of NSTEMI. MI in patients with RT is independently associated with a 15% higher risk of all-cause death than that in patients with MI and no RT.This publication has 36 references indexed in Scilit:
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