The evolution of histological changes suggestive of antibody-mediated injury, in the presence and absence of donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies

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The interplay between donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies (HLA-DSA), histology of active antibody-mediated rejection (aABMRh ), transplant glomerulopathy (cg), and graft failure in kidney transplantation remains insufficiently understood. We performed a single-center cohort study (n = 1000) including 2761 protocol and 833 indication biopsies. Patients with pretransplant HLA-DSA were more prone to develop aABMRh (OR 22.7, 95% CI, 11.8-43.7, P < 0.001), cg (OR 5.76, 95% CI, 1.67-19.8, P = 0.006), and aABMRh/cg (OR 19.5, 95% CI, 10.6-35.9, P < 0.001). The negative impact of pre-transplant HLA-DSA on graft survival (HR 2.12, 95% CI, 1.41-3.20, P < 0.001) was partially mediated through aABMRh and cg occurrence. When adjusted for time-dependent HLA-DSA (HR 4.03, 95% CI, 2.21-7.15, P = 0.002), graft failure was only affected by aABMRh when cg was evident. In HLA-DSA negative patients, aABMRh was associated with impaired graft outcome only when evolving to cg (HR 1.32, 95% CI, 1.07-1.61, P = 0.008). We conclude that the kinetics of HLA-DSA are important to estimate the rate of graft failure, and that histological follow-up is necessary to discover, often subclinical, ABMR and cg. In the absence of HLA-DSA, patients experience similar histological lesions and the evolution to transplant glomerulopathy associates with impaired graft outcome.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:34

Enthalten in:

Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation - 34(2021), 10 vom: 01. Okt., Seite 1824-1836

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Coemans, Maarten [VerfasserIn]
Senev, Aleksandar [VerfasserIn]
Van Loon, Elisabet [VerfasserIn]
Lerut, Evelyne [VerfasserIn]
Sprangers, Ben [VerfasserIn]
Kuypers, Dirk [VerfasserIn]
Emonds, Marie-Paule [VerfasserIn]
Verbeke, Geert [VerfasserIn]
Naesens, Maarten [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

AABMRh
HLA Antigens
HLA-DSA
Isoantibodies
Joint modeling
Journal Article
Kidney transplantation

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Date Completed 18.10.2021

Date Revised 18.10.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/tri.13964

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM327443855