Impact of immunosuppression regimen on COVID-19 mortality in kidney transplant recipients : Analysis from a Colombian transplantation centers registry

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BACKGROUND: The impact of immunosuppression in solid organ transplant recipients with SARS-CoV-2 infection is unknown. The knowledge about the behavior of different immunosuppression schemes in clinical outcomes is scarce. This study aimed to determine the risk of death in kidney transplant recipients with COVID-19 under two different schemes of immunosuppression.

METHODS: We describe our experience in kidney transplant recipients with SARS-CoV-2 infection in seven transplant centers during the first year of the pandemic before starting the vaccination programs in the city of Bogotá. Demographic characteristics, clinical presentation, immunosuppression schemes at presentation, and global treatment strategies were compared between recovered and dead patients; survival analysis was carried out between calcineurin inhibitors based regimen and free calcineurin inhibitors regimen.

RESULTS: Among 165 confirmed cases, 28 died (17%); the risk factors for mortality identified in univariate analysis were age older than 60 years (p=.003) diabetes (p=.001), immunosuppression based on calcineurin inhibitors (CNI) (p=.025) and patients receiving steroids (p=.041). In multivariable analysis, hypoxemia (p=.000) and calcineurin inhibitors regimen (p=.002) were predictors of death. Survival analysis showed increased mortality risk in patients receiving CNI based immunosuppression regimen vs. CNI free regimens mortality rates were, respectively, 21.7% and 8.5% (p=.036).

CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that the calcineurin inhibitors probably do not provide greater protection compared to calcineurin inhibitor free schemes being necessary to carry out analyzes that allow us to evaluate the outcomes with different immunosuppression schemes in solid organ transplant recipients with SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:43

Enthalten in:

Nefrologia - 43(2023), 6 vom: 21. Nov., Seite 757-764

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Montero, Camilo [VerfasserIn]
Torres, Rodolfo [VerfasserIn]
Benavidez, Carlos [VerfasserIn]
Garcia, Paola [VerfasserIn]
Jimenez, Sandra [VerfasserIn]
Yomayusa, Nancy [VerfasserIn]
Gayon, Diana [VerfasserIn]
Perez, Jorge [VerfasserIn]
Rosselli, Diego [VerfasserIn]
Restrepo, Hector [VerfasserIn]
Alvarez-Moreno, Carlos [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Belatacept
COVID-19
Calcineurin Inhibitors
Calcineurin inhibitors
Immunosuppression
Immunosuppressive Agents
Inhibidor mTOR
Inhibidores de calcineurina
Inmunosupresión
Journal Article
Kidney transplantation
MTOR inhibitors
SARS-CoV-2
Trasplante renal

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 07.02.2024

Date Revised 23.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.nefroe.2022.09.006

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM35192230X