Affiliation:
1. Department of Urology, Institute of Urology, West China Hospital Sichuan University Chengdu China
2. Organ Transplantation Center, West China Hospital Sichuan University Chengdu China
Abstract
AbstractTorque teno virus (TTV) is a promising novel marker for quantifying the immune function in solid organ recipients, whose diagnostic accuracy of acute rejection (AR) and infection after kidney transplantation (KT) has not been evaluated. We performed a systematic review and meta‐analysis to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of TTV for discriminating AR and infection after KT. Eleven studies were included in the meta‐analysis. Seven studies focused on the diagnostic accuracy of TTV for AR, and the pooled analysis indicated patients who developed AR had a significant lower TTV viral DNA load (log10 copies/mL, MD: −0.74, p < 0.01). The pooled sensitivity, specificity, and area under the receiver operating characteristics curve for TTV in AR differentiation were 0.61 (0.36−0.82), 0.81 (0.64−0.91), and 0.79 (0.75−0.82), respectively. The overall diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) was 6.74 (2.60−17.50), positive likelihood ratio (PLR) was 3.22 (1.75−5.95), and negative likelihood ratio (NLR) was 0.48 (0.27−0.84), respectively. Similarly, seven studies investigated the infection discrimination and found that patients who subsequently developed posttransplant infection had higher plasma TTV DNA loads (log10 copies/mL, MD: 0.65; p < 0.01) than those remaiing infection‐free. Pooled sensitivity, specificity, and area under the receiver operating characteristics curve for TTV in infection differentiation were 0.72 (0.39−0.91), 0.57 (0.30−0.80), and 0.68 (0.64−0.72), respectively. The overall DOR was 3.28 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.08−5.17), the pooled PLR and NLR were 1.65 (95% CI: 1.25−2.18) and 0.50 (95% CI: 0.29−0.86), respectively. TTV might be a modest indicator for risk stratification of AR after KT, but it is a poor to discriminate posttransplant infection.
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Virology
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