DZIF Transplant Cohort (DZIF Tx-Cohort)

Sample details

The DZIF Tx-Cohort investigates the impact of infections on transplant function and survival in a German cohort of transplant patients. The cohort recruits patients of all ages who have received heart, kidney, lung, liver, pancreas, or stem cell transplants from five university hospitals across Germany. As of June 2024, over 2,000 patients had completed baseline data collection. Follow-ups are carried out at three-month intervals in the first year after the transplant and yearly in the following years. Participants are also followed each time they visit a health centre for a complication related to the transplant.

Study design
Cohort - clinical

Number of participants at first data collection

2,700 (participants as of 2024)

Recruitment is ongoing

Age at first data collection

Varied (participants)

Participant year of birth

Varied (participants)

Participant sex
All

Representative sample at baseline?
No

Sample features

Organ transplant patients and donors

Patients and clinical populations

Dataset details

Country

Germany

Year of first data collection

2015

Primary Institutions

Bitcare

German Center for Infection Research (Deutsches Zentrum für Infektionsforschung, DZIF)

Hannover Medical School (Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, MHH)

Heidelberg University Hospital (Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, UKHD)

Rechts der Isar Hospital (Klinikum rechts der Isar)

Links

dzif.de/en/working-group/transplant-cohort

Profile paper DOI

doi.org/10.1007/s10654-020-00715-3

Funders

German Center for Infection Research (Deutsches Zentrum für Infektionsforschung, DZIF)

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) now known as Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt, BMFTR)

Ongoing?
Yes

Data types collected