scholarly journals Outcomes of Kidney Transplant Recipients with Sickle Cell Disease: An Analysis of the 2000–2019 UNOS/OPTN Database

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. 3063
Author(s):  
Napat Leeaphorn ◽  
Charat Thongprayoon ◽  
Pradeep Vaitla ◽  
Panupong Hansrivijit ◽  
Caroline C. Jadlowiec ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Transplant ◽  
Graft Survival ◽  
Patient Survival ◽  
Transplant Recipients ◽  
Cell Disease ◽  
Kidney Transplant Recipients ◽  
Allograft Survival ◽  
End Stage Kidney Disease ◽  
Kidney Recipients ◽  
End Stage

Background: Lower patient survival has been observed in sickle cell disease (SCD) patients who go on to receive a kidney transplant. This study aimed to assess the post-transplant outcomes of SCD kidney transplant recipients in the contemporary era. Methods: We used the OPTN/UNOS database to identify first-time kidney transplant recipients from 2010 through 2019. We compared patient and allograft survival between recipients with SCD (n = 105) vs. all other diagnoses (non-SCD, n = 146,325) as the reported cause of end-stage kidney disease. We examined whether post-transplant outcomes improved among SCD in the recent era (2010–2019), compared to the early era (2000–2009). Results: After adjusting for differences in baseline characteristics, SCD was significantly associated with lower patient survival (HR 2.87; 95% CI 1.75–4.68) and death-censored graft survival (HR 1.98; 95% CI 1.30–3.01), compared to non-SCD recipients. The lower patient survival and death-censored graft survival in SCD recipients were consistently observed in comparison to outcomes of recipients with diabetes, glomerular disease, and hypertension as the cause of end-stage kidney disease. There was no significant difference in death censored graft survival (HR 0.99; 95% CI 0.51–1.73, p = 0.98) and patient survival (HR 0.93; 95% CI 0.50–1.74, p = 0.82) of SCD recipients in the recent versus early era. Conclusions: Patient and allograft survival in SCD kidney recipients were worse than recipients with other diagnoses. Overall SCD patient and allograft outcomes in the recent era did not improve from the early era. The findings of our study should not discourage kidney transplantation for ESKD patients with SCD due to a known survival benefit of transplantation compared with remaining on dialysis. Urgent future studies are needed to identify strategies to improve patient and allograft survival in SCD kidney recipients. In addition, it may be reasonable to assign risk adjustment for SCD patients.

scholarly journals Impact of antiretroviral therapy on clinical outcomes in HIV+ kidney transplant recipients: Review of 58 cases

F1000Research ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 2893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rossana Rosa ◽  
Jose F. Suarez ◽  
Marco A. Lorio ◽  
Michele I. Morris ◽  
Lilian M. Abbo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antiretroviral Therapy ◽  
Acute Rejection ◽  
Clinical Outcomes ◽  
Kidney Transplant ◽  
Graft Survival ◽  
Patient Survival ◽  
Transplant Recipients ◽  
Kidney Transplant Recipients ◽  
Serious Infections ◽  
The Impact

Background: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) poses challenging drug-drug interactions with immunosuppressant agents in transplant recipients.  We aimed to determine the impact of specific antiretroviral regimens in clinical outcomes of HIV+ kidney transplant recipients. Methods: A single-center, retrospective cohort study was conducted at a large academic center. Subjects included 58 HIV- to HIV+ adult, first-time kidney transplant patients. The main intervention was ART regimen used after transplantation.  The main outcomes assessed at one- and three-years were: patient survival, death-censored graft survival, and biopsy-proven acute rejection; we also assessed serious infections within the first six months post-transplant. Results: Patient and graft survival at three years were both 90% for the entire cohort. Patients receiving protease inhibitor (PI)-containing regimens had lower patient survival at one and three years than patients receiving PI-sparing regimens: 85% vs. 100% (p=0.06) and 82% vs. 100% (p=0.03), respectively. Patients who received PI-containing regimens had twelve times higher odds of death at 3 years compared to patients who were not exposed to PIs (odds ratio, 12.05; 95% confidence interval, 1.31-1602; p=0.02).  Three-year death-censored graft survival was lower in patients receiving PI vs. patients on PI-sparing regimens (82 vs 100%, p=0.03). Patients receiving integrase strand transfer inhibitors-containing regimens had higher 3-year graft survival. There were no differences in the incidence of acute rejection by ART regimen. Individuals receiving PIs had a higher incidence of serious infections compared to those on PI-sparing regimens (39 vs. 8%, p=0.01). Conclusions: PI-containing ART regimens are associated with adverse outcomes in HIV+ kidney transplant recipients.

scholarly journals Living Donor Kidney Transplantation Improves Graft and Recipient Survival in Patients with Multiple Kidney Transplants

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 2118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Irene Bellini ◽  
Aisling E Courtney ◽  
Jennifer A McCaughan
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Transplantation ◽  
Renal Replacement Therapy ◽  
Replacement Therapy ◽  
Kidney Transplant ◽  
Graft Survival ◽  
Living Donor ◽  
Patient Survival ◽  
Transplant Recipients ◽  
Kidney Transplant Recipients

Background: Failed kidney transplant recipients benefit from a new graft as the general incident dialysis population, although additional challenges in the management of these patients are often limiting the long-term outcomes. Previously failed grafts, a long history of comorbidities, side effects of long-term immunosuppression and previous surgical interventions are common characteristics in the repeated kidney transplantation population, leading to significant complex immunological and technical aspects and often compromising the short- and long-term results. Although recipients’ factors are acknowledged to represent one of the main determinants for graft and patient survival, there is increasing interest in expanding the donor’s pool safely, particularly for high-risk candidates. The role of living kidney donation in this peculiar context of repeated kidney transplantation has not been assessed thoroughly. The aim of the present study is to analyse the effects of a high-quality graft, such as the one retrieved from living kidney donors, in the repeated kidney transplant population context. Methods: Retrospective analysis of the outcomes of the repeated kidney transplant population at our institution from 1968 to 2019. Data were extracted from a prospectively maintained database and stratified according to the number of transplants: 1st, 2nd or 3rd+. The main outcomes were graft and patient survivals, recorded from time of transplant to graft failure (return to dialysis) and censored at patient death with a functioning graft. Duration of renal replacement therapy was expressed as cumulative time per month. A multivariate analysis considering death-censored graft survival, decade of transplantation, recipient age, donor age, living donor, transplant number, ischaemic time, time on renal replacement therapy prior to transplant and HLA mismatch at HLA-A, -B and -DR was conducted. In the multivariate analysis of recipient survival, diabetic nephropathy as primary renal disease was also included. Results: A total of 2395 kidney transplant recipients were analysed: 2062 (83.8%) with the 1st kidney transplant, 279 (11.3%) with the 2nd graft, 46 (2.2%) with the 3rd+. Mean age of 1st kidney transplant recipients was 43.6 ± 16.3 years, versus 39.9 ± 14.4 for 2nd and 41.4 ± 11.5 for 3rd+ (p < 0.001). Aside from being younger, repeated kidney transplant patients were also more often males (p = 0.006), with a longer time spent on renal replacement therapy (p < 0.0001) and a higher degree of sensitisation, expressed as calculated reaction frequency (p < 0.001). There was also an association between multiple kidney transplants and better HLA match at transplantation (p < 0.0001). A difference in death-censored graft survival by number of transplants was seen, with a median graft survival of 328 months for recipients of the 1st transplant, 209 months for the 2nd and 150 months for the 3rd+ (p = 0.038). The same difference was seen in deceased donor kidneys (p = 0.048), but not in grafts from living donors (p = 0.2). Patient survival was comparable between the three groups (p = 0.59). Conclusions: In the attempt to expand the organ donor pool, particular attention should be reserved to high complex recipients, such as the repeated kidney transplant population. In this peculiar context, the quality of the donor has been shown to represent a main determinant for graft survival—in fact, kidney retrieved from living donors provide comparable outcomes to those from single-graft recipients.

scholarly journals P1706THE GRAFT SURVIVAL OF KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION ACCORDING TO ETHNICITY IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (Supplement_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeonsoon Jung ◽  
Jisu Kim ◽  
Haesu Jeon ◽  
Ye Na Kim ◽  
Ho Sik Shin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Kidney Transplantation ◽  
Kidney Transplant ◽  
Graft Survival ◽  
Cox Regression ◽  
Patient Survival ◽  
Graft Loss ◽  
Transplant Recipients ◽  
Kidney Transplant Recipients ◽  
Data Set

Abstract Background African American kidney transplant recipients experience disproportionately high rates of graft loss. The aim of this analysis was to use a UNOS data set that contains detailed baseline and longitudinal clinical data to establish and quantify the impact of the current overall graft loss definition on suppressing the true disparity magnitude in US AA kidney transplant outcomes. Methods Longitudinal cohort study of kidney transplant recipients using a data set created by United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), including 266,128 (African American 70,215, Non-African American 195,913) transplant patient between 1987 and December 2016. Multivariable analysis was conducted using 2-stage joint modeling of random and fixed effects of longitudinal data (linear mixed model) with time to event outcomes (Cox regression). Results 195,913 non-African American (AA) (73.6%) were compared with 70,215 AA (26.4%) recipients. 10-year-graft survival of AA in all era is lower than that of non-AA (31% in deceased kidney transplants (DKT) AA recipient and 42% in living kidney transplantation (LKT) non-AA recipient). 10-year-patient survival of AA with functioning graft in all era is similar that of non-AA. Multivariate Cox regression of factors associated with patient survival with functioning graft are acute rejection within 6 months, DM, hypertension and etc. Pre-transplant recipient BMI in AA show the trend as a protective factor in patient survival with functioning graft although not significantly in statistics Conclusions African American kidney transplant recipients experience a substantial disparity in graft loss, but not patient death with functioning graft.

scholarly journals Screening for Fabry Disease in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Experience of a Multidisciplinary Team

Biomedicines ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Veroux ◽  
Ines Monte ◽  
Margherita Rodolico ◽  
Daniela Corona ◽  
Rita Bella ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fabry Disease ◽  
Kidney Transplant ◽  
Multidisciplinary Team ◽  
Transplant Recipients ◽  
Kidney Transplant Recipients ◽  
Kidney Recipients ◽  
Classic Form ◽  
Fabry Nephropathy ◽  
Stage Renal Disease ◽  
End Stage

Fabry disease (FD) is a rare cause of end-stage renal disease requiring kidney transplantation. Data on the incidence of unrecognized FD in kidney transplant recipients are scarce and probably underestimated. This study evaluated the incidence of FD in a population of kidney recipients, with a particular focus of the multidisciplinary approach for an early clinical assessment and therapeutic approach. Two hundred sixty-five kidney transplant recipients were screened with a genetic analysis for α-galactosidase A (GLA) mutation, with measurement of α-Gal A enzyme activity and Lyso Gb3 levels. Screening was also extended to relatives of affected patients. Seven patients (2.6%) had a GLA mutation. Two patients had a classic form of FD with Fabry nephropathy. Among the relatives, 15 subjects had a GLA mutation, and two had a Fabry nephropathy. The clinical and diagnostic assessment was completed after a median of 3.2 months, and mean time from diagnosis to treatment was 4.6 months. This study reported a high incidence of unrecognized GLA mutations in kidney transplant recipients. Evaluation and management by a multidisciplinary team allowed for an early diagnosis and treatment, and this would result in a delay in the progression of the disease and, finally, in better long-term outcomes.

scholarly journals Sexuality in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Qualitative Study

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1432
Author(s):  
Ximena Abarca-Durán ◽  
Isabel María Fernández-Medina ◽  
María del Mar Jiménez-Lasserrotte ◽  
Iria Dobarrio-Sanz ◽  
Ana Lucía Martínez-Abarca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Kidney Transplant ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Sexual Education ◽  
Transplant Recipients ◽  
Kidney Transplant Recipients ◽  
End Stage Kidney Disease ◽  
End Stage ◽  
The Impact

End-stage kidney disease has a negative impact on patients’ quality of life. People who receive a kidney transplant experience an improvement in many areas of their daily life. Sexuality is a general component of health, which can be affected by end-stage kidney disease and kidney transplant. The aim of this study was to explore and understand the experiences and perspectives of kidney transplant recipients regarding their sexuality. A qualitative study based on Gadamer’s hermeneutic philosophy was carried out. Two focus groups and nine interviews were conducted with 18 kidney transplant recipients. Data were audio-recorded, transcribed, and analyzed with the help of qualitative analysis software. Two main themes emerged from the data: (1) “The impact of a kidney transplant on sexuality”, with the subthemes “sexuality is relegated to the background”, “physical decline acts as a sexual inhibitor”, and “changes in sexual activity following a kidney transplant”; (2) “Sexual education in kidney transplant recipients” with the subthemes “sexuality: a hidden concern amongst kidney transplant recipients” and “talking about sexuality with healthcare professionals”. Sexuality is a frequent concern among kidney transplant recipients. The physiological and emotional changes experienced after kidney transplant exert a great influence on their sexuality. Healthcare professionals rarely discuss sexuality concerns with kidney transplant recipients. Professional sexual education and assistance are necessary to improve sexual health satisfaction of kidney transplant recipients.

Comparing the Effect of rATG Dosing on Long-Term Outcomes in Young (40-59) and Elderly (≥60) Kidney Transplant Recipients

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iman Bajjoka ◽  
Salvatore Serra ◽  
Jade Mourad ◽  
Catherine Crombez ◽  
Mohamed Safwan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Transplant ◽  
Graft Survival ◽  
Patient Survival ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Survival Rates ◽  
Transplant Recipients ◽  
Kidney Transplant Recipients ◽  
Long Term Outcomes ◽  
Long Term Outcome

Abstract BackgroundAs the number of elderly kidney transplant recipients increases, long-term outcome differences between this population and younger kidney transplant recipients are not well documented. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of rATG dosing on long-term outcomes between elderly and young kidney transplant recipients.MethodsA single-center retrospective analysis of medical records of 688 first-time kidney transplant recipients (KTR) from 2003 to 2014 on a regimen of mycophenolate mofetil, tacrolimus, and steroids was performed. During the 11-year period there were no immunosuppresion protocol changes. Baseline characteristics, first biopsy-proven acute rejection (BPAR), estimated glomerular filtration rates (eGFR), graft survival, and patient survival at discharge and annually up to 5 years post-transplant were analyzed. Various statistical tests including Chi-square test, two-sample t-test, and Mann-Whitney U test were used to compare data obtained from this study.ResultsThe study population was divided into two cohorts: elderly (E-KTR) (≥60 years; n=277) and younger (Y-KTR) (40-59 years; n=411). E-KTR received more expanded criteria donor kidneys (p<0.001) and older donor kidneys (p<0.001). Y-KTR experienced more BPAR in incidence (p<0.001) than E-KTR, however, the severity of BPAR was similar. A difference in eGFR was observed at discharge, where Y-KTR had better eGFR rates than E-KTR (p<0.05). At 5-years, a trend was observed indicating that E-KTR have better eGFR rates than Y-KTR. Despite similar long-term graft survival, patient survival was significantly lower among the elderly patients (p<0.01). An indication for higher mortality rates in E-KTR is due to rATG dosing for which we found that mortality increased with patients who received high rATG doses in comparison to low doses (p<0.05).ConclusionE-KTR had lower patient survival rates yet similar graft survival rates when compared to Y-KTR. Lower survival rates in E-KTR was associated with higher rATG dosing. Larger validation studies need to be performed to assess the benefit of using less harmful immunosuppressants to improve long-term outcomes for E-KTR.

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