Treatment of chronic active T cell-mediated rejection after kidney transplantation : A retrospective cohort study of 37 transplants

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AIM: Data on the treatment of chronic active T cell-mediated rejection (CA-TCMR) are scarce, and therapeutical strategies for CA-TCMR have not been established. We retrospectively evaluated the outcomes and effects of treatment on pathological and clinical findings in patients with CA-TCMR.

METHODS: This study comprised 37 patients who underwent kidney transplantation at our institute who were diagnosed with CA-TCMR between January 2018 and December 2020. Patients were followed until October 2021.

RESULTS: A total of 32 of the 37 patients were treated. During the observation period, two patients died (5%), and five patients developed allograft loss (13%). A univariate Cox proportional hazards model showed that indication biopsy, higher spot urine protein/creatinine ratio (UPCR) and Banff ci/ct scores were risk factors for allograft loss. Of the treated patients, 23 underwent follow-up biopsies. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test showed significant improvement in the Baff scores for "ti", "i-IFTA", "t" and "t-IFTA" after treatment. On pathology, 13 (57%) of the patients who underwent follow-up biopsy improved to "no evidence of rejection" or "borderline change." Assuming that improvement in pathology to "borderline change" or "no evidence of rejection" on follow-up biopsy indicates response to treatment, multivariate logistic analysis showed that lower UPCR was a predictive factor for response to treatment. No specific effect of treatment type was observed.

CONCLUSIONS: Our results indicate that treatment could improve the pathological findings in CA-TCMR.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27

Enthalten in:

Nephrology (Carlton, Vic.) - 27(2022), 7 vom: 01. Juli, Seite 632-638

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Noguchi, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]
Matsukuma, Yuta [VerfasserIn]
Nakagawa, Kaneyasu [VerfasserIn]
Ueki, Kenji [VerfasserIn]
Tsuchimoto, Akihiro [VerfasserIn]
Nakano, Toshiaki [VerfasserIn]
Sato, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Kaku, Keizo [VerfasserIn]
Okabe, Yasuhiro [VerfasserIn]
Nakamura, Masafumi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Chronic active T cell-mediated rejection
Journal Article
Kidney transplantation
Treatment

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Date Completed 10.06.2022

Date Revised 10.06.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/nep.14048

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM340073624