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Tailored immunosuppression after kidney transplantation - a single center real-life experience.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Kidney allograft survival continuously improved with introduction of novel immunosuppressants. However, also immunologically challenging transplants (blood group incompatibility and sensitized recipients) increase. Between 2006 and 2008, a new tailored immunosuppression scheme for kidney transplantation was implemented at the University Hospital in Zurich, together with an ABO-incompatible transplant program and systematic pre- and posttransplant anti-human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibody screening by Luminex technology. This study retrospectively evaluated the results of this tailored immunosuppression approach with a particular focus on immunologically higher risk transplants. METHODS:A total of 204 consecutive kidney transplantations were analyzed, of whom 14 were ABO-incompatible and 35 recipients were donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies (DSA) positive, but complement-dependent cytotoxicity crossmatch (CDC-XM) negative. We analyzed patient and graft survival, acute rejection rates and infectious complications in ABO-compatible versus -incompatible and in DSA positive versus negative patients and compared those with a historical control group. RESULTS:Overall patient, death-censored allograft survival and non-death-censored allograft survival at 4?years were 92, 91 and 87%, respectively. We found that (1) there were no differences between ABO-compatible and -incompatible and between DSA positive and DSA negative patients concerning acute rejection rate and graft survival; (2) compared with the historical control group there was a significant decrease of acute rejection rates in sensitized patients who received an induction with thymoglobulin; (3) there was no increased rate of infection among the patients who received induction with thymoglobulin compared to no induction therapy. CONCLUSIONS:We observed excellent overall mid-term patient and graft survival rates with our tailored immunosuppression approach. Induction with thymoglobulin was efficient and safe in keeping rejection rates low in DSA positive patients with a negative CDC-XM.

SUBMITTER: Good-Weber M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7686677 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

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Tailored immunosuppression after kidney transplantation - a single center real-life experience.

Good-Weber Miriam M Roos Malgorzata M Mueller Thomas F TF Rüsi Barbara B Fehr Thomas T

BMC nephrology 20201123 1

<h4>Background</h4>Kidney allograft survival continuously improved with introduction of novel immunosuppressants. However, also immunologically challenging transplants (blood group incompatibility and sensitized recipients) increase. Between 2006 and 2008, a new tailored immunosuppression scheme for kidney transplantation was implemented at the University Hospital in Zurich, together with an ABO-incompatible transplant program and systematic pre- and posttransplant anti-human leukocyte antigen ( ...[more]

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