Rituximab, plasma exchange and immunoglobulins : an ineffective treatment for chronic active antibody-mediated rejection
Piñeiro, Gastón J. (Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona)
De Sousa-Amorim, Erika (Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona)
Solé, Manel (Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona)
Ríos, José (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Pediatria, Obstetrícia i Ginecologia i Medicina Preventiva i Salut Pública)
Lozano, Miguel (Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona)
Cofan, Frederic (Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona)
Ventura-Aguiar, Pedro (Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona)
Cucchiari, David (Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona)
Revuelta, Ignacio (Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona)
Cid, Joan (Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona)
Palou, Eduard (Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona)
Campistol Plana, Josep M (Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona)
Oppenheimer, Federico (Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona)
Rovira, Jordi (Red de Investigación Renal (REDinREN))
Diekmann, Fritz (Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona)

Date:	2018
Abstract:	Chronic active antibody-mediated rejection (c-aABMR) is an important cause of allograft failure and graft loss in long-term kidney transplants. To determine the efficacy and safety of combined therapy with rituximab, plasma exchange (PE) and intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG), a cohort of patients with transplant glomerulopathy (TG) that met criteria of active cABMR, according to BANFF'17 classification, was identified. We identified 62 patients with active c-aABMR and TG (cg ≥ 1). Twenty-three patients were treated with the combination therapy and, 39 patients did not receive treatment and were considered the control group. There were no significant differences in the graft survival between the two groups. The number of graft losses at 12 and 24 months and the decline of eGFR were not different and independent of the treatment. A decrease of eGFR≥13 ml/min between 6 months before and c-aABMR diagnosis, was an independent risk factor for graft loss at 24 months (OR = 5; P = 0. 01). Infections that required hospitalization during the first year after c-aABMR diagnosis were significantly more frequent in treated patients (OR = 4. 22; P = 0. 013), with a ratio infection/patient-year of 0. 65 and 0. 20 respectively. Treatment with rituximab, PE, and IVIG in kidney transplants with c-aABMR did not improve graft survival and was associated with a significant increase in severe infectious complications.
Grants:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad RD12/0021/0028 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad RD16/0009/0023
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Kidney transplantation ; Transplant glomerulopathy ; Chronic active antibody-mediated rejection ; Rituximab ; Infections
Published in:	BMC Nephrology, Vol. 19 (october 2018) , ISSN 1471-2369

DOI: 10.1186/s12882-018-1057-4
PMID: 30309322

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