• Transplantation · Sep 2017

    Prediction of Waitlist Mortality in Adult Heart Transplant Candidates: The Candidate Risk Score.

    • Carine Jasseron, Camille Legeai, Christian Jacquelinet, Pascal Leprince, Christelle Cantrelle, Benoît Audry, Raphael Porcher, Olivier Bastien, and Richard Dorent.
    • 1 Agence de la biomédecine, Direction Prélèvement Greffe Organes-Tissus, Saint-Denis La Plaine, France. 2 Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Service de chirurgie cardio-vasculaire, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France. 3 Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôtel-Dieu, Centre d'Epidémiologie Clinique, Université Paris Descartes, Inserm U1153, Paris, France.
    • Transplantation. 2017 Sep 1; 101 (9): 2175-2182.

    BackgroundThe cardiac allocation system in France is currently based on urgency and geography. Medical urgency is defined by therapies without considering objective patient mortality risk factors. This study aimed to develop a waitlist mortality risk score from commonly available candidate variables.MethodsThe study included all patients, aged 16 years or older, registered on the national registry CRISTAL for first single-organ heart transplantation between January 2010 and December 2014. This population was randomly divided in a 2:1 ratio into derivation and validation cohorts. The association of variables at listing with 1-year waitlist death or delisting for worsening medical condition was assessed within the derivation cohort. The predictors were used to generate a candidate risk score (CRS). Validation of the CRS was performed in the validation cohort. Concordance probability estimation (CPE) was used to evaluate the discriminative capacity of the models.ResultsDuring the study period, 2333 patients were newly listed. The derivation (n =1 555) and the validation cohorts (n = 778) were similar. Short-term mechanical circulatory support, natriuretic peptide decile, glomerular filtration rate, and total bilirubin level were included in a simplified model and incorporated into the score. The Concordance probability estimation of the CRS was 0.73 in the derivation cohort and 0.71 in the validation cohort. The correlation between observed and expected 1-year waitlist mortality in the validation cohort was 0.87.ConclusionsThe candidate risk score provides an accurate objective prediction of waitlist mortality. It is currently being used to develop a modified cardiac allocation system in France.

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