Long-term follow-up of acute and chronic rejection in heart transplant recipients from hepatitis C viremic (NAT+) donors

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The long-term safety of heart transplants from hepatitis C viremic (NAT+) donors remains uncertain. We conducted a prospective study of all patients who underwent heart transplantation at our center from January 2018 through August 2020. Routine testing was performed to assess for donor-derived cell-free DNA, acute cellular rejection (ACR), antibody-mediated rejection (AMR), and cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV). Allograft dysfunction and mortality were also monitored. Seventy-five NAT- recipients and 32 NAT+ recipients were enrolled in the study. All NAT+ recipients developed viremia detected by PCR, were treated with glecaprevir/pibrentasvir at the time of viremia detection, and cleared the virus by 59 days post-transplant. Patients who underwent NAT testing starting on post-operative day 7 (NAT+ Group 1) had significantly higher viral loads and were viremic for a longer period compared with patients tested on post-operative day 1 (NAT+ Group 2). Through 3.5 years of follow-up, there were no statistically significant differences in timing, severity, or frequency of ACR in NAT+ recipients compared with the NAT- cohort, nor were there differences in noninvasive measures of graft injury, incidence or severity of CAV, graft dysfunction, or mortality. There were five episodes of AMR, all in the NAT- group. There were no statistically significant differences between Group 1 and Group 2 NAT+ cohorts. Overall, these findings underscore the safety of heart transplantation from NAT+ donors.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:22

Enthalten in:

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons - 22(2022), 12 vom: 26. Dez., Seite 2951-2960

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Stachel, Maxine W [VerfasserIn]
Alimi, Marjan [VerfasserIn]
Narula, Navneet [VerfasserIn]
Flattery, Erin E [VerfasserIn]
Xia, Yuhe [VerfasserIn]
Ramachandran, Abhinay [VerfasserIn]
Saraon, Tajinderpal [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Deane [VerfasserIn]
Reyentovich, Alex [VerfasserIn]
Goldberg, Randal [VerfasserIn]
Kadosh, Bernard S [VerfasserIn]
Razzouk, Louai [VerfasserIn]
Katz, Stuart [VerfasserIn]
Moazami, Nader [VerfasserIn]
Gidea, Claudia G [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Clinical research/practice
Donors and donation: donor-derived infections
Graft survival
Heart (allograft) function/dysfunction
Heart transplantation/cardiology
Immunosuppression/immune modulation
Infection and infectious agents - viral: hepatitis C
Journal Article
Rejection

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Date Completed 08.12.2022

Date Revised 24.01.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/ajt.17190

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM345709187