SUCCESSFUL TRANSPLANTATION OF CYCLOSPORINE-TREATED HAPLOIDENTICAL LIVING-RELATED RENAL RECIPIENTS WITHOUT BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Transplantation
- Vol. 37 (1) , 73-75
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00007890-198401000-00020
Abstract
A protocol of cyclosporine and prednisone immunosuppression was used in 36 consecutive haploidentical living-related renal transplant recipients from donors displaying marked proliferation in mixed lymphocyte culture (MLC) reactions. All blood transfusions (random 3rd-party and donor-specific) were withheld once a negative crossmatch with the prospective kidney donor was obtained. With a mean follow-up of 13.6 mo., patient survival is 97% (35/36) and graft survival is 92% (33/36). One graft was lost to rejection; 2 were abandoned because of sepsis. Only 14% (5/36) of patients experienced a rejection episode. No significant differences were evident in graft survival, rejection episodes or renal function between the 15 recipients who were never transfused and the 21 with a history of previous blood transfusions. It is suggested that pretransplant blood transfusions not only are unnecessary to achieve excellent graft survival, but also may jeopardize donor availability by donor-specific presensitization.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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