2018-12-15
Effect of initial immunosuppression on long-term kidney transplant outcome in immunological low-risk patients
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Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation , Volume 34 - Issue 8 p. 1417- 1422
BACKGROUND: Few studies have evaluated the effect of different immunosuppressive strategies on long-term kidney transplant outcomes. Moreover, as they were usually based on historical data, it was not possible to account for the presence of pretransplant donor-specific human-leukocyte antigen antibodies (DSA), a currently recognized risk marker for impaired graft survival. The aim of this study was to evaluate to what extent frequently used initial immunosuppressive therapies increase graft survival in immunological low-risk patients. METHODS: We performed an analysis on the PROCARE cohort, a Dutch multicentre study including all transplantations performed in the Netherlands between 1995 and 2005 with available pretransplant serum (n = 4724). All sera were assessed for the presence of DSA by a luminex single-antigen bead assay. Patients with a previous kidney transplantation, pretransplant DSA or receiving induction therapy were excluded from the analysis. RESULTS: Three regimes were used in over 200 patients: cyclosporine (CsA)/prednisolone (Pred) (n = 542), CsA/mycophenolate mofetil (MMF)/Pred (n = 857) and tacrolimus (TAC)/MMF/Pred (n = 811). Covariate-adjusted analysis revealed no significant differences in 10-year death-censored graft survival between patients on TAC/MMF/Pred therapy (79%) compared with patients on CsA/MMF/Pred (82%, P = 0.88) or CsA/Pred (79%, P = 0.21). However, 1-year rejection-free survival censored for death and failure unrelated to rejection was significantly higher for TAC/MMF/Pred (81%) when compared with CsA/MMF/Pred (67%, P < 0.0001) and CsA/Pred (64%, P < 0.0001). CONCLUSION: These results suggest that in immunological low-risk patients excellent long-term kidney graft survival can be achieved irrespective of the type of initial immunosuppressive therapy (CsA or TAC; with or without MMF), despite differences in 1-year rejection-free survival.
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| doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfy377, hdl.handle.net/1765/124201 | |
| Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation | |
| Organisation | Department of Internal Medicine |
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Michielsen, L.A. (Laura A.), van Zuilen, A.D. (Arjan D.), Verhaar, M., Wisse, B. W., Kamburova, E.G. (Elena G.), Joosten, I., … Hilbrands, L. (2018). Effect of initial immunosuppression on long-term kidney transplant outcome in immunological low-risk patients. Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, 34(8), 1417–1422. doi:10.1093/ndt/gfy377 |
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