A survey on the attitude of kidney transplant recipients towards elective arteriovenous fistula ligation

The published dataset involves material from a single-center survey performed in Department of Nephrology and Transplantation Medicine of Wroclaw Medical University. The primary aim of the study was to assess the attitude of kidney transplant recipients on maintaining or ligating their vascular access after successful kidney transplantation. Until now, no study has ever addressed this topic. We also lack experience and scientific data from randomized trials, on how an elective ligation of functioning vascular access post-transplantation would influence the outcomes in this patient group. Thus, the patients' feedback is certainly one of several factors that must be considered before any intervention. Additionally, the survey result show not only the patients attitude to closing or maintaining functioning arteriovenous fistula, but also visualizes some correlations between vascular access persistence and renal function, time from transplantation and other clinical parameters. The presented dataset involves a patient subset created after excluding cases with multiple missing data (cases with lacking single variables were accepted). Some identifying characteristics were removed to maintain patient confidentiality. On the basis of this published file a manuscript has already been drafted and awaits publication. The surveys were appended in original version in Polish and translated into English.本公开数据集的素材源自弗罗茨瓦夫医科大学（Wroclaw Medical University）肾脏内科与移植医学科开展的一项单中心调查研究。本研究的核心目的为评估肾移植成功后的受者对保留或结扎自身血管通路（vascular access）的态度。截至目前，尚无针对该主题的相关研究，同时针对移植术后功能正常的血管通路择期结扎对该患者群体预后的影响，我们也缺乏随机对照试验的相关经验与科学数据。因此，在实施任何相关干预措施前，患者的反馈无疑是必须考量的关键因素之一。此外，本次调查结果不仅揭示了患者对闭合或保留功能正常动静脉瘘（arteriovenous fistula）的态度，还展现了血管通路留存情况与肾功能、移植术后时长及其他临床参数间的关联。本次公开的数据集为经筛选后的患者亚群数据：剔除了存在多项缺失数据的病例，但保留了仅存在单项变量缺失的病例。为保护患者隐私，已移除所有可识别患者身份的特征信息。基于本公开数据集，相关研究论文已完成撰写并待刊。本次调查原始问卷以波兰语留存，并已被译为英文版本作为附录。