CYCLOSPORINE-ASSOCIATED LESIONS IN NATIVE KIDNEYS OF DIABETIC PANCREAS TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS
CYCLOSPORINE-ASSOCIATED LESIONS IN NATIVE KIDNEYS OF DIABETIC PANCREAS TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS
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DOI:
10.1038/ki.1995.318
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发表时间:
1995-08-01
影响因子:
19.6
通讯作者:
MAUER, M
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FIORETTO, P;STEFFES, MW;MAUER, M
Five years of normoglycemia following pancreas transplantation (PT) does not ameliorate glomerular lesions in patients with their own kidneys and with long-term insulin-dependent diabetes (IDDM) (Lancet 342:1193, 1993). All these patients received cyclosporine (CsA) as part of their immunosuppression. Here we examined the relationship of CsA dose and blood levels to the presence and severity of CsA-associated renal lesions and changes in renal function in these PT patients. Renal biopsies were taken before (0) and two and five years after PT from 13 non-uremic IDDM patients and were compared with baseline and five year biopsies from 10 IDDM controls (C). CsA dose was reduced from 10 +/- 3 mg/kg/day in the first month to 5 +/- 2 in the fifth year post-PT. Creatinine clearance (C-Cr) decreased by 34% at one year post-PT and was stable thereafter, and did not change in C. The decline in C-Cr from 0 to one year was related to CsA blood levels and dose (P < 0.005) at one year. Cortical interstitial volume fraction [Vv(Int/Cortex)], the index of tubular atrophy, and % sclerotic glomeruli increased significantly from 0 to five years post-PT (P < 0.005, 0.01 and 0.001, respectively), but did not change in C. There was no significant change from 0 to two years post-PT in these lesions, while there was a clear progression from two to five years. Mean CsA dose and blood levels in the first year post-PT correlated with the increase (Delta) in Vv(Int/Cortex) at five years (P < 0.05 for both). The best predictor of Delta Vv(Int/Cortex) was the change in C-Cr over the first year post-PT (P < 0.003). In conclusion, in five years serious tubulointerstitial and glomerulosclerotic lesions developed in PT recipients on CsA therapy, but not in IDDM C. These lesions were best predicted by the decline in C-Cr and CsA blood levels and dose during the first year post-PT. Despite early CsA dose reductions, and stabilization of C-Cr, structural lesions progressed from two to five years post-PT.