Clinical Study
Efficacy and Safety of Low-Dose Cyclosporine with Everolimus and Steroids in de novo Heart Transplant Patients: A Multicentre, Randomized Trial
Table 1
Demographics and baseline characteristics. Continuous variables are shown as mean ± SD.
| | RD CsA | ST CsA |
| Recipient age (years) | | | Female recipient | 25 (25.3%) | 22 (22.0%) | White recipient | 79 (79.8%) | 77 (77.0%) | End stage disease leading to transplantation | | | Cardiomyopathy | 49 (49.5%) | 55 (55.0%) | Coronary artery disease | 32 (32.3%) | 30 (30.0%) | Other | 18 (18.2%) | 15 (15.0%) | Ventricular assist device | 12 (12.1%) | 8 (8.0%) | Panel reactive antibodies (%) | | | 0%–10% | 84 (84.5%) | 87 (87.0%) | >10% | 1 (1.0%) | 0 | Missing | 14 (14.1%) | 13 (13.0%) | Donor age (years) | 35.3±13.9 | 35.5±11.9 | Female donor | 24 (24.2%) | 35 (35.0%) | Cytomegalovirus D+/R− | 23 (23.2%) | 17 (17.0%) | Cold ischaemia time (hours) [mean ± SD] | | | Diabetes | 31 (31.3%) | 31 (31.0%) | Hypertension | 45 (45.5%) | 53 (53.0%) |
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