Acute pancreatitis risk after kidney transplantation: Propensity score matching analysis of a national cohort

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 14; no. 9; p. e0222169
• Main Authors: Chuang, Ya-Wen, Huang, Shih-Ting, Yu, Tung-Min, Li, Chi-Yuan, Chung, Mu-Chi, Lin, Cheng-Li, Chang, Chi-Sen, Wu, Ming-Ju, Kao, Chia-Hung
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 11.09.2019; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Alcohol; Alcohols; Biology and Life Sciences; Calculi; Care and treatment; Clinical trials; Cohort analysis; Cytomegalovirus; Databases, Factual; Diabetes; Epidemiology; Fatalities; Female; Gallstones; Health; Health aspects; Hemodialysis; Hepatitis; Hospitals; Humans; Hyperlipidemia; Illnesses; Incidence; Insurance; Kidney diseases; Kidney transplantation; Kidney Transplantation - adverse effects; Kidney transplants; Kidneys; Matching; Medical research; Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; Middle Aged; Mortality; National health insurance; Nephrology; Online databases; Organ transplant recipients; Organ transplantation; Pancreas; Pancreatitis; Pancreatitis - epidemiology; Pancreatitis - etiology; Patients; Population; Propensity Score; Public health; Research and Analysis Methods; Retrospective Studies; Risk; Risk Assessment; Risk factors; Studies; Surgery; Taiwan - epidemiology; Transplantation; Transplants & implants; Viral infections; Taiwan; China

Data for elucidating post-kidney transplantation (KT) acute pancreatitis (AP) risk are limited and no large-scale cohort study has investigated the impact of AP after KT. Data from Taiwan National Health Insurance (NHI) Research Database (NHIRD) were calculated through the method of propensity score...