Juan Wang, Jianghong Chen, Yuewei Yin, Yuena Zhang, Yulin Ma
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BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical utility of ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) for assessment of renal fibrosis in post-renal transplant patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS We selected 183 patients who underwent renal transplantation. The complete dataset was randomly partitioned into a training cohort (128 cases) and a validation cohort (55 cases). All patients were subjected to SWE and renal allograft biopsy. The baseline data was compared using t-test, Z-test, or chi-square test. Through univariate and multivariate analyses, we identified independent risk factors influencing renal fibrosis after transplantation, a predictive model for post-transplant renal fibrosis was developed, and calibration curves, decision curve analyses, and ROC curves were generated. RESULTS Age, TST, Scr, GFR, and Emean showed significant differences (P<0.05). The C-index of the nomogram was 0.85, and the calibration curve and Hosmer-Lemeshow test demonstrated accurate diagnosis of fibrosis in both the training and validation sets (P>0.05). DCA showed that the prediction model effectively improved the diagnostic accuracy of fibrosis. The highest AUC of the nomogram for combined prediction of renal fibrosis in transplant patients was 0.902 in the training group and 0.871 in the validation group. These values were significantly higher compared to the AUCs of individual predictors (P<0.05). CONCLUSIONS Ultrasound SWE allows for early evaluation of renal fibrosis following transplantation. The prediction model, constructed by amalgamating other indicators, augments the accuracy and reliability of the prediction, providing more precise and accurate diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations for clinical practitioners.
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Annals of Transplantation is one of the fast-developing journals open to all scientists and fields of transplant medicine and related research. The journal is published quarterly and provides extensive coverage of the most important advances in transplantation.
Using an electronic on-line submission and peer review tracking system, Annals of Transplantation is committed to rapid review and publication. The average time to first decision is around 3-4 weeks. Time to publication of accepted manuscripts continues to be shortened, with the Editorial team committed to a goal of 3 months from acceptance to publication.
Expert reseachers and clinicians from around the world contribute original Articles, Review Papers, Case Reports and Special Reports in every pertinent specialty, providing a lot of arguments for discussion of exciting developments and controversies in the field.