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Development of prognostic model for fistula maturation in patients with advanced renal failure

Abstract

Background

This study aimed to explore the role of patient’s characteristic and haematological factors as predictive on the maturation of arteriovenous fistulae in patients who underwent vascular access surgery at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Methods

Retrospective data from 300 patients who had undergone fistula creation between February 2007 and October 2010 was examined. A predictive logistic regression model was developed using the backward stepwise procedure. Model performance, discrimination and calibration, was assessed using the receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve and Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness of fit test.

Results

Three variables were identified which independently influenced fistula maturation. Males were twice as likely to undergo fistula maturation, compared to that of females (odds ratio (OR) 0.514; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.308–0.857), patients with no evidence of peripheral vascular disease (PVD) were three times more likely to mature their fistula (OR 3.140; 95% CI 1.596–6.177) and a pre-operative vein diameter > 2.5 mm resulted in a fivefold increase in fistula maturation compared to a vein size less than 2.5 mm (OR 4.532; 95% CI 2.063–9.958). The model for fistula maturation had fair discrimination as indicated by the area under the ROC curve (0.68; 95% CI 0.615–0.738) but good calibration indicated by Hosmer and Lemeshow test (p = 0.79).

Conclusion

Gender, PVD and vein size are independent predictors of arteriovenous fistula maturation. The clinical utility of these risk equation in the maturation of arteriovenous fistulae requires further validation in the newly treated patients.

Background

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a critical condition with considerable public health implications. It affects a significant proportion of the general population and, when progressive, has an increasing influence on morbidity and mortality. In the USA, it is reported that 10% (more than 20 million adults) are affected with CKD [1]. In the UK, the prevalence of stage 3–5 CKD is 1.7 million adults [2] with an annual incidence of stage 5 CKD of 100 per million of the population [3]. Once a patient reaches end-stage kidney disease, their quality of life becomes poor and the life expectancy is considerably shortened [4]. According to the United States Renal Data System [5], more than 87,000 people die from causes related to kidney failure each year.

Through the provision of renal replacement therapy, survival and quality of life of the patients can be markedly improved [6]. The efficiency of haemodialysis treatment relies on a functional status of vascular access, and complications here represent the main factor that determines a rise in the morbidity among haemodialysis patients and consequently, a rise in the healthcare expenses [7]. In the UK, renal replacement therapy utilizes up to 2% of its financial resources [8]. To ensure that the dialysis therapy can be efficiently undertaken, all patients have to have a fully developed fistula appropriate for cannulation. The percentage of arteriovenous fistulae (AVF) that fail to mature for haemodialysis is 28–53% [9]. The dialysis therapy is often postponed for up to 6 months or more to allow extra time for the fistula to develop; if this does not happen, the AVF is declared as ‘failed to mature’. The development process of AVF is complicated, and it is difficult to settle on the precise length of time it requires to mature [10]. Several researchers [11,12,13,14,15,16] have recommended a number of pre-surgical principles relying on invasive and non-invasive procedures; however, factors, such as cost, time and complexity, hinder the widespread application of these principles.

It may be possible to improve the end results of vascular access by gaining a more comprehensive picture about the various factors involved in the maturation of fistulae. This could then in turn provide important information during the pre-surgical evaluation that surgeons can base their decisions on. Independent predictive factors may be beneficial in anticipating successful fistula maturation without the use of invasive tests, and this could be cost-effective. The objective of the study was to assess factors which are important in the successful maturation of AVF. These were used to formulate a simple and economical prognostic model on the maturation of AVF.

Methods

Research design

This is a single-centre exploratory study that involved the collection of retrospective data from the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and identification of those independent predictors for a predictive model of fistula maturation. A favourable ethical opinion was obtained from the NHS Lothian ethics committee and Queen Margaret University ethics committee for the study.

Using the retrospective clinical database of patients with ESRD, we identified 300 patients between February 2007 and October 2010 who had undergone vascular access surgery for first-time AVF creation. Patients who underwent a repeat AVF creation (second and further fistula creations) were not included in this study. Purposive sampling technique was used for patient’s recruitment. Study was performed systematically in different steps from identification, screening, recruitment, data collection of potential participants and finally data analysis by using appropriate statistical test (Fig. 1).

Fig. 1
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Flow diagram showing steps of the study

A retrospective case note review was performed on all patients identified from the hospital vascular access database as having undergone construction of AVF. The medical case files of the patients who had undergone fistula surgery between 2007 and 2010 were retrieved from the medical records (Proton® software and Apex® software) at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh. At the beginning, all potential participants’ records were screened comprehensively. From the data, reports of patients were developed from the pre-operative assessment papers and the clinical results of their operation obtained from the clinical records and follow-up case notes.

The details of patient’s factor and blood markers were explored by complete review of the patient’s inpatient and outpatient medical record (containing all information pertaining to medical and surgical consultations and all previous hospital admissions and management) via an electronic database. All the data was entered into an Excel spreadsheet (Microsoft, USA).

The patient record including age, gender and risk factors; peripheral vascular disease (PVD); diabetes mellitus (DM); hypertension (HTN); smoking (ever versus never); and dialysis (ever versus never). Patients were defined as obese when their body mass index was > 30, consistent with the World Health Organization classification [17]. Fistula characteristics that were ascertained included fistula type and its location (right or left). Clinically important biomedical factors including estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR); creatinine; blood urea; serum potassium (K); sodium (Na); calcium (Ca); bicarbonate (HCO3); prothrombin time (PT); international normalization ratio (INR); high-density lipoprotein (HDL); triglyceride (TG); total cholesterol (TC); and vein diameter were also included in the analysis. Duplex investigation of the veins was performed to measure the diameter of arm veins according to a standard protocol by vascular scientists in the vascular clinic of Royal Infirmary Edinburgh. All procedures such as general physical examination consisted of inspection and palpation of the vessels of the upper arm and forearm and measurement of brachial artery blood pressure. Subsequently, height and weight details were recorded in order to calculate the BMI values and blood samples were obtained by the regular NHS staff. PVD was identified through a physical examination and by comparing the blood pressure in the arm and ankle. Ankle-brachial pressure index (ABPI) ≤ 0.90 reliably identifies 95% of symptomatic arteriogram-positive PVD individuals and almost 100% of healthy controls [18].

Outcome definition

Maturation was defined as the ability to provide on-going functional haemodialysis at the sixth week [19, 20] from the access procedure. An experienced dialysis specialist nurse determined when the fistula was ready for an attempt at cannulation and then attempted initial cannulation of the fistula; if unsuccessful, the fistula then was evaluated by the vascular surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Statistical analysis

Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS (IBM SPSS Statistics 20.0). Data was expressed as mean, standard deviation (SD) and 95% confidence interval (CI) or as proportions. The association between the independent factors and outcome, i.e. mature fistula, was assessed initially employing univariable logistic regression, and following this, a multivariable model was produced utilizing backward stepwise logistic regression with those variables found to be significant in the univariable regression at p < 0.25. The odds ratios and associated 95% confidence intervals for variables in the final model were reported. The significance level for the multivariable model was set at p < 0.05. Multicollinearity in the model was investigated to assess the relationship between the independent factors. We evaluated the calibration and discrimination performance of the model. For the calibration, the Hosmer-Lemeshow test was employed to investigate how well the predicted probabilities agreed with the observed probabilities. Discrimination, which refers to the ability of a model to distinguish between the maturation and immaturation of the AVF, was quantified using the ROC curve. The ROC curve plots the sensitivity (true positive rate) against 1—specificity (false positive rate) for consecutive cut-offs for the probability of an outcome [21].

Results

Retrospective data was obtained for 300 patients who underwent vascular access surgery. Ages ranged from 19 to 87 years, with a mean age of 60.5 (16) years. Successful maturation of the AVF was achieved in 168 (56%) patients as assessed by dialysis specialist nurses.

Univariable associations

AVF characteristics and univariable analysis of clinical variables for the prediction of maturation of fistula are shown in Table 1. Univariable analysis found nine variables to be associated with maturation of AVF: gender, side of arm, type of fistulae, PVD, diabetes, SBP, INR, TG and vein size. In addition to the above variables, a further two statistically non-significant variables, i.e. dialysis [22, 23] (ever versus never) and eGFR [24], were added to the model due to their possible clinical association with the maturation of AVF as suggested by the vascular surgeons.

Table 1 Univariable analysis of independent factors to maturation of AVF

Multivariable associations

Three variables were identified which were independently associated with fistula maturation using multivariable logistic regression analysis (Table 2). Males were twice as likely to undergo fistula maturation, compared to females (OR 0.514; 95% CI 0.308–0.857; p = 0.011) with patients who had no evidence of PVD being three times more likely to mature their fistula (OR 3.140; 95% CI 1.596–6.177; p < 0.001) and those with a pre-operative vein diameter greater than 2.5 mm [25, 26] resulting in a fivefold increase in fistula maturation compared to a vein size less than 2.5 mm (OR 4.532; 95% CI 2.063–9.958; p < 0.001). No multicollinearity was observed between the independent factors.

Table 2 Multivariable predictors of AVF maturation

The overall risk score for each patient was estimated by summing the scores of each significant independent variable. Using the prediction model, the following prognostic equation was developed:

$$ \mathrm{Risk}\;s\mathrm{core}\;\left(-\log\;\mathrm{odds}\right)={\beta}_0+{\beta}_1{X}_1+{\beta}_2{X}_2+\dots \dots +{\beta}_n{X}_n $$

where β0 is the intercept, β1 till β n are the regression coefficients and X1 to X n are independent variables.

$$ \mathrm{Risk}\ \mathrm{score}\ \left(-\log\ \mathrm{odds}\ \mathrm{of}\ \mathrm{failure}\ \mathrm{of}\ \mathrm{AVF}\ \mathrm{maturation}\right)=00.182+\left(-0.666\times \mathrm{gender}\right)+\left(1.144\times \mathrm{PVD}\right)+\left(1.511\times \mathrm{vein}\ \mathrm{size}\right) $$

where all variables are coded 0 for no or 1 for yes. The value − 0.182 is called the intercept, and the other numbers are the estimated regression coefficients for the predictors, which indicate their mutually adjusted relative contribution to the outcome risk.

The performance of the final prognostic model assessed in terms of calibration using Hosmer-Lemeshow test was not significant (p = 0.79). This suggests that there was no statistically significant difference between predicted and observed outcomes. The area under the ROC curve for prediction of maturation of fistula was 0.68 (95% bias-corrected CI 0.615, 0.738), which indicates fair [27] discrimination (Fig. 2).

Fig. 2
figure 2

Receiver operating curve analysis for prognostic model performance

Discussion

The results of this study identify three clinical factors, each of which was independently associated with maturation of AVF: male gender, PVD and vein diameter. AVF successfully matured in 168 patients, accounting for 56% of the total number of patients. Similar results have been obtained by Feldman et al. [28], with 55.5% out of a total of 348 patients exhibiting successful AVF maturation.

The study result showed a gender difference, mature rates of 60% for men and of 48% for women. Miller et al. [29] found Ithat the AVF maturation is more successful in men than in women. Similar results were obtained by Gibbons [30] and Iyem [31]. In our study, males were twice as likely to undergo fistula maturation, compared to that of females; the most rational explanation for this difference is the smaller size of vessels in women. Some studies also found female gender to be associated with immature fistula [12, 13, 15, 32]. However, there are also studies that did not show a gender difference. Jennings et al. [26] involved the creation of AVFs on 114 participants and did not observe any gender difference in the maturation of AVF [33, 34].

Out of 300 patients, 38% were diabetic and 16% had clinical evidence of PVD. In a number of studies, it has been reported that more than 50% of North American dialysis patients had diabetes, and approximately one third had PVD [35,36,37]. In our study, fistula maturation was 59.7% in a group with no history of PVD and 33.3 in patients with PVD. This emerged as one of the predictive factors in the maturation of fistulae in the multivariable analysis. Patients with no evidence of PVD were three times more likely to mature their fistula. Our data is consistent with other studies in which PVD was associated with AVF failure [38, 39]. Chan et al. conducted a retrospective cohort analysis using 1486 patients’ data [40]. It was revealed that patients who suffer from PVD are more likely to experience non-maturation of AVF (OR 2.78, 95% CI 1.01–7.63, p = 0.047). Fistula failure is consistent with the underlying need for adequate arterial vessels, which deteriorate with the normal aging process and are damaged by concurrent disease; this finding is supported by other studies [11, 41].

Our data are consistent with other studies in which vein size was associated with successful maturation of fistulae. Mendes et al. reported that if the diameter of the cephalic veins exceeds 2 mm, there is a 76% success rate of functional dialysis access, whereas if the diameter is less than 2 mm, there is only a 16% success rate [14]. In this study, a pre-operative vein diameter greater than 2.5 mm resulted in a fivefold increase in fistula maturation compared to a vein size less than 2.5 mm. Our data is consistent with other studies in which vein size is associated with successful fistula maturation [41, 42]. The cut-off value identified by Brimble et al. was 2.6 mm; however, only women exhibited a substantial discrepancy between AVF success and failure with regard to vein diameter [43]. In contrast, Wong et al. did not observe any discrepancies between AVF success and failure in the mean vein diameter at the wrist but indicated AVF failure in all cases where the vein diameter was below 1.6 mm [44].

This study hypothesized that blood and patient factors could be used to stratify risk of self-report of maturation of AVF. In brief, using the development dataset of 300 subjects, we identified three variables associated with maturation of fistula: gender, PVD and vein size. The performance of the developed model in this study was assessed by discrimination and calibration of the model. The area under the ROC curve for a prognostic model is classically between 0.6 and 0.85 [45]. In our study, ROC curve was primarily designed for prognostic models, rather for diagnostic models. ROC curve was 0.68 in the development model and 0.59 in the validation stage, meaning that the model had limited capacity to correctly distinguish between mature and immature fistulae.

The present study has a number of limitations. The connection between artery diameter and blood inflow rate was emphasized by a number of studies [42, 46, 47]. However, we did not included artery diameter and arterial blood flow in our study due to the unavailability of retrospective data. Another limitation were the duplex measurements of the vein diameter and measurements of vessel diameter carried out by vascular scientists who had a great deal of experience and were familiar with the procedure. The objective of the scientist was to carry out the measurements in spite of the differences between pre-surgery examination and the actual intervention. However, there were few staff changes during the 5 years when the fistulae were constructed. As argued by Pisoni et al. [48], it is important to take into consideration non-measurable elements, such as measurement techniques and principles of care, apart from ample case-mix adaptations highlighted by other studies.

Conclusion

A preoperative, clinical prediction model to determine fistulae that are likely to mature was created. It was found to be simple and easily reproducible and applied to predictive risk categories. Gender, PVD and vein size are useful predictors of arteriovenous fistula maturation. The clinical utility of these risk categories in the maturation of arteriovenous fistula requires further validation in the newly treated patients.

Abbreviations

ABPI:

Ankle-brachial pressure index

AVF:

Arteriovenous fistula

BMI:

Body mass index

Ca:

Calcium

CI:

Confidence interval

CKD:

Chronic kidney disease

DM:

Diabetes mellitus

eGFR:

Estimated glomerular filtration rate

ESRD:

End-stage renal disease

HCO3 :

Bicarbonate

HDL:

High-density lipoprotein

HTN:

Hypertension

INR:

International normalized ratio

K:

Potassium

Na:

Sodium

NHS:

National Health System

NICE:

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

OR:

Odds ratio

PT:

Prothrombin time

PVD:

Peripheral vascular disease

ROC:

Receiver operating curve

SD:

Standard deviation

SPSS:

Statistical Package for the Social Science

TC:

Total cholesterol

TG:

Triglyceride

USRDS:

United States Renal Data System

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We appreciate Rona Lochiel, a vascular access nurse specialist, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, for her assistance in the recruitment and follow-up of the patients. We also like to thank statistician Catriona Graham (Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, University of Edinburgh) for her advice in the data analysis.

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Siddiqui, M.A., Ashraff, S., Santos, D. et al. Development of prognostic model for fistula maturation in patients with advanced renal failure. Ren Replace Ther 4, 11 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41100-018-0153-z

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