Page 99 - Cardiac testing for coronary artery disease in potential kidney transplant recipients
P. 99

* P values for this variable were calculated using the likelihood ratio test in SAS (PROC NLMIXED), and represented the final P value
                obtained from a backward elimination approach used to eliminate non-significant terms from the original hierarchical model.


                Table 4. Comparison of systematic reviews studying the test performance of myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and dobutamine
                stress echocardiography


                 Review         Population     DSE                            MPS

                                               Sensitivity  (95% Specificity  (95% Sensitivity  (95% Specificity  (95%
                                               CI)             CI)            CI)             CI)

                 Cochrane review  Kidney  transplant 0.79 (0.67 to 0.88)  0.89 (0.81 to 0.94)  0.74 (0.54 to 0.87)  0.70 (0.51 to 0.84)
                                candidates only


                 Fleischmann 1998  General population  0.85 (0.83 to 0.87)  0.77 (0.74 to 0.80)  0.87 (0.86 to 0.88)  0.64 (0.60 to 0.68)
                 Schinkel 2003  General population  0.80 (NS)  0.86 (NS)      0.84 (NS)       0.77 (NS)

                DSE: dobutamine stress echocardiography; MPS; myocardial perfusion scintigraphy; NS - not stated










                A P P E N D I C E S
                Appendix 1. Electronic search strategies




                 Database  Search terms

                 MEDLINE    1. Kidney Transplantation/
                            2. Pancreas Transplantation/
                            3. (kidney and pancreas and (transplant$ or graft$)).tw.
                            4. Kidney Failure/
                            5. Kidney Failure, Chronic/
                            6. (chronic kidney or chronic renal).tw.
                            7. (endstage kidney or endstage renal).tw.
                            8. (end stage kidney or end stage renal).tw.
                            9. (ESRD or ESKD or ESRF or ESKF).tw.
                           10. exp Renal Dialysis/
                           11. dialysis.tw.
                           12. (hemodialysis or haemodialysis).tw.
                           13. (hemodiafilt$ or haemodiafilt$).tw.
                           14. (hemofilt$ or haemofilt$).tw.
                           15. (PD or CAPD or CCPD or APD).tw.
                           16. or/1-15



                Cardiac testing for coronary artery disease in potential kidney transplant recipients (Review)  97
                Copyright © 2011 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104