The impact of positive T-cell lymphocytotoxic crossmatch on intestinal allograft rejection and survival
The impact of positive T-cell lymphocytotoxic crossmatch on intestinal allograft rejection and survival
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DOI:
10.1016/s0041-1345(00)01181-7
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发表时间:
2000-09-01
影响因子:
0.9
通讯作者:
Abu-Elmagd, K
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作者:
Bond, G;Reyes, J;Abu-Elmagd, K
MATERIALS AND METHODSOver a 9-year period, 124 consecutive patients received a total of 130 intestinal allografts at our center: 51 isolated intestines and 79 composite visceral grafts (62 liver/intestine and 17 multivisceral). Of these, 51% were male and 58% were children. All donors were cadaveric and ABO identical. The HLA match was random and no attempts were made to immunomodulate the graft. The baseline immunosuppression was tacrolimus and steroids. Daclizumab was used as an induction therapy for the last 17 patients and OKT3 was utilized to treat steroid-resistant rejection. In 27 allografts (4 positive XM. 23 negative XM), a single dose (3 to 5× 10 8 cells/kg body weight) of unmodified donor bone marrow cells were infused intravenously within 24 hours after graft implantation. The XM test was performed in all patients by obtaining recipient sera immediately before transplantation that tested for cytotoxic antibody activity against donor T lymphocytes as previously described. 2 To shorten the cold-ischemia time, the recipient operation was often started before the results of the XM were available. The XM was positive with dithiothreitol (DTT) in 23 (18%) grafts. All were primary grafts with 7 (30%) isolated intestines and 16 (70%) composite visceral grafts that contained liver. Twelve were children and 11 were adults with a relative predominance of adult females (39%). The clinical features of both positive and negative XM recipients were similar, including number of previous abdominal operations, operative time, cold-ischemia time, donor/recipient CMV status, and median follow-up period. The donor and recipient operations as well as the perioperative management strategy were the same in both groups as described elsewhere. 4, 5 The Kaplan-Meier method was used to calculate survival rates. Chi-square and standard t tests were used for statistical analysis.RESULTSWith a mean follow-up of 27 months, 10 (2 isolated intestine, 8 composite visceral) of the 23 positive XM allografts were lost, with an overall survival of 57%. The causes of the 10 graft (patient) losses were opportunistic infections in 5 (PTLD= 3, CMV= 1, fungal sepsis= 1), rejection in 3 (acute= 2, chronic= 1), and dissection of the ascending thoracic aorta in 1. The remaining graft (liver/intestine) was transplanted across a high-lymphocytotoxic antibody titer (1: 512) to a black pediatric recipient who died of primary graft failure 4 days after transplantation. Hyperacute rejection could not be excluded in such a case despite failure of the conducted immunohistochemical and pathologic studies to confirm the diagnosis. Using the negative XM grafts as control, the presence of preformed lymphocytotoxic antibodies did not significantly affect the 5-year actuarial (Kaplan–Meier) patient and graft survival.