• Pre-empting Antibody-Mediated Rejection: A Program of DSA Monitoring and Treatment Can Effectively Prevent Antibody Mediated Rejection

Pre-empting Antibody-Mediated Rejection: A Program of DSA Monitoring and Treatment Can Effectively Prevent Antibody Mediated Rejection.

Alexander Gilbert, Monica Grafals, Olga Timofeeva, Misbah Zaheer, Abdullah Karabala, Sandra Rosen-Bronson, Dong Li, Mariam Awwad, Peter Abrams, Jack Moore, Basit Javaid, Jennifer Verbesey, Seyed Ghasemian, and Matthew Cooper

Clinical Transplants 2016, Chapter 10

Abstract

Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) remains a problem without a reliable treatment in the care of kidney transplant patients. We proposed and tested a program of screening for donor specific antibodies (DSA) to initiate treatment of patients before AMR was detected and to prevent its occurrence. Starting in April 2012, we stratified patients into high-, medium-, and low-risk groups for the development of DSA and instituted a program of screening for and treatment of these antibodies. We used a historic control group of patients transplanted at our center as a comparator and looked at rates of DSA testing and development as well as rates of development of AMR, cell-mediated rejection, and graft loss. 614 patients were transplanted under the protocol compared with 266 patients in the control group. Length of follow-up was similar in both groups. The group undergoing DSA screening had lower rates of DSA development (17.6% versus 24.8%, p=0.016) and that DSA was found at a significantly earlier time post-transplant (147 versus 248 days, p=0.02). Incidence of AMR was  ramatically lower in the screened group (1.3% versus 8.6%, p<0.0001) with no grafts lost due to AMR. AMR was found to occur at an average of 181 days post-transplant. Rates of acute cellular rejection did not decrease in a manner similar to AMR rates. In conclusion, a program of universal risk-stratified DSA testing in kidney transplant patients can dramatically reduce rates of AMR and virtually eliminate graft loss due to AMR.


Copyright© 2017 by the Terasaki Research Institute.


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