Willicombe M, Rizzello A, Goodall D, Papalois V, McLean AG, Taube D. Risk factors and outcomes of delayed graft function in renal transplant recipients receiving a steroid sparing immunosuppression protocol.
World J Transplant 2017;
7:34-42. [PMID:
28280693 PMCID:
PMC5324026 DOI:
10.5500/wjt.v7.i1.34]
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Abstract
AIM
To analyse the risk factors and outcomes of delayed graft function (DGF) in patients receiving a steroid sparing protocol.
METHODS
Four hundred and twenty-seven recipients of deceased donor kidney transplants were studied of which 135 (31.6%) experienced DGF. All patients received monoclonal antibody induction with a tacrolimus based, steroid sparing immunosuppression protocol.
RESULTS
Five year patient survival was 87.2% and 94.9% in the DGF and primary graft function (PGF) group respectively, P = 0.047. Allograft survival was 77.9% and 90.2% in the DGF and PGF group respectively, P < 0.001. Overall rejection free survival was no different between the DGF and PGF groups with a 1 and 5 year rejection free survival in the DGF group of 77.7% and 67.8% compared with 81.3% and 75.3% in the PGF group, P = 0.19. Patients with DGF who received IL2 receptor antibody induction were at significantly higher risk of rejection in the early post-transplant period than the group with DGF who received alemtuzumab induction. On multivariate analysis, risk factors for DGF were male recipients, recipients of black ethnicity, circulatory death donation, preformed DSA, increasing cold ischaemic time, older donor age and dialysis vintage.
CONCLUSION
Alemtuzumab induction may be of benefit in preventing early rejection episodes associated with DGF. Prospective trials are required to determine optimal immunotherapy protocols for patients at high risk of DGF.
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