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Table 15.4b

Steroid Withdrawal Rate at One Year Following Transplantation, 1999 to 2007

Recipients of Living Donor Kidneys

Discharge Regimen Year of Transplant
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Total Patients 3,446 3,894 4,390 4,379 4,112 3,741 3,458 3,185 2,806
Steroids Withdrawn 147 182 240 464 466 455 487 380 369
Rate 4.3% 4.7% 5.5% 10.6% 11.3% 12.2% 14.1% 11.9% 13.2%
CyA Patients 198 145 104 70 84 86 19 16 17
Steroids Withdrawn 5 6 4 3 3 2 1 1 1
Rate 2.5% 4.1% 3.8% 4.3% 3.6% 2.3% 5.3% 6.3% 5.9%
Tac Patients 97 141 158 134 117 123 78 73 80
Steroids Withdrawn 8 14 19 17 17 24 17 3 14
Rate 8.2% 9.9% 12.0% 12.7% 14.5% 19.5% 21.8% 4.1% 17.5%
CyA+MMF Patients 1,760 1,614 1,457 1,168 902 744 542 356 274
Steroids Withdrawn 67 46 36 70 35 43 36 24 28
Rate 3.8% 2.9% 2.5% 6.0% 3.9% 5.8% 6.6% 6.7% 10.2%
Tac+MMF Patients 849 1,163 1,740 2,160 2,229 2,198 2,342 2,234 2,091
Steroids Withdrawn 50 59 105 214 272 273 318 315 289
Rate 5.9% 5.1% 6.0% 9.9% 12.2% 12.4% 13.6% 14.1% 13.8%
CyA+Aza Patients 238 163 132 49 17 11 4 5 1
Steroids Withdrawn 6 4 0 3 0 1 0 0 0
Rate 2.5% 2.5% 0.0% 6.1% 0.0% 9.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Tac+Aza Patients 56 50 67 74 62 34 6 8 12
Steroids Withdrawn 1 9 10 13 3 3 1 1 0
Rate 1.8% 18.0% 14.9% 17.6% 4.8% 8.8% 16.7% 12.5% 0.0%
CyA+Siro Patients 50 231 156 108 101 43 43 21 19
Steroids Withdrawn 3 13 6 37 31 1 5 1 1
Rate 6.0% 5.6% 3.8% 34.3% 30.7% 2.3% 11.6% 4.8% 5.3%
Tac+Siro Patients 4 172 300 277 237 164 120 179 34
Steroids Withdrawn 0 11 40 54 41 28 18 15 3
Rate 0.0% 6.4% 13.3% 19.5% 17.3% 17.1% 15.0% 8.4% 8.8%
Siro+MMF Patients 1 30 89 124 111 75 101 65 42
Steroids Withdrawn 0 1 0 16 10 5 21 5 3
Rate 0.0% 3.3% 0.0% 12.9% 9.0% 6.7% 20.8% 7.7% 7.1%
Other Regimen Patients 193 185 187 215 252 263 203 228 236
Steroids Withdrawn 7 19 20 37 54 75 70 15 30
Rate 3.6% 10.3% 10.7% 17.2% 21.4% 28.5% 34.5% 6.6% 12.7%


Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 4, 2009.

Includes patients receiving first transplants of any organ with steroid use at transplant discharge, and who have a functioning graft and maintenance drug use one year after transplantation.

Transplants prior to year 1999 are not reported due to insufficient reporting of immunosuppressive drug use.

CyA: Cyclosporine; Tac: Tacrolimus; MMF: Include MMF(Mycophenolate Mofetil) and MPA(Mycophenolate Sodium); Aza: Azathioprine; Siro: Sirolimus.



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