Tacrolimus without antilymphocyte induction therapy prevents pancreas loss from rejection in 123 consecutive patients.
Tacrolimus without antilymphocyte induction therapy prevents pancreas loss from rejection in 123 consecutive patients.
复制标题
不进行抗淋巴细胞诱导治疗的他克莫司连续 123 名患者预防了因排斥反应引起的胰腺损失。
DOI:
10.1016/s0041-1345(97)01385-7
复制
发表时间:
1998
影响因子:
0.9
通讯作者:
Starzl,TE
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Corry,RJ;Egidi,MF;Shapiro,R;Sugitani,A;Gritsch,HA;Jordan,ML;Dodson,SF;Vivas,CA;Scantlebury,VP;Rao,AS;Fung,JJ;Starzl,TE
METHODSThis report analyzes 123 consecutive patients who received pancreas transplants between July 1994 and July 1997, 106 in combination with kidney transplantation. Immunosuppression included intravenous tacrolimus 0.05 mg/kg for 5 to 7 days followed by an initial oral dose of 0.15 mg/kg twice a day. The tarcolimus dose was adjusted daily to achieve whole blood trough levels of 20 to 25 ng/mL (first 2 weeks), 15 to 20 by 1 month, 10 to 15 by 3 months, and 7 to 12 by 6 months. Patients also received tapering steroid doses and azathioprine during the first half of the series and mycophenolate mofetil during the second half. 1RESULTSSurvival rates were patient 98%, kidney 94%, and pancreas 83%(median follow-up 18 months). Three patients lost graft function at 6, 9, and 20 months from chronic rejection. One patient, who was highly sensitized and whose lympho-cytotoxic cross-match turned positive postoperatively, lost the graft at 3 weeks from an antibody-mediated rejection. Other losses were nonimmunologic, nine of which were secondary to an ischemic/reperfusion injury leading to thrombosis within a few days after transplantation. There were no losses from acute cellular rejection.SUMMARYIn this series, antilymphoid induction therapy did not appear to be necessary to prevent early graft loss from rejection. In addition, we have followed cytomegalovirus (CMV) antigenemia (pp65) for CMV infection. Although some patients developed a positive antigenemia in the seropositive to negative donor-recipient combinations, only one patient had a prolonged febrile course for 1 week.