Publications by authors named "B Taton"
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- Campylobacteriosis is the leading bacterial cause of diarrhea in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs), but risk factors for this infection remain unclear.
- A 10-year study in France identified 326 KTRs with campylobacteriosis, revealing an incidence rate of 2.3 cases per 1,000 patient-years, primarily occurring around 2.4 years after transplantation.
- The main risk factors for developing campylobacteriosis include the use of corticosteroids, acute rejection episodes, low lymphocyte counts, and low estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR); treatment should prioritize azithromycin due to high resistance to fluoroquinolones.
Our objective was to calculate an immunosuppressant possession ratio (IPR) to diagnose non-adherence at the time of antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR). IPR was defined as the ratio of number of pills collected at the pharmacy to the number of pills prescribed over a defined period. In a first cohort of 91 kidney transplant recipients (KTRs), those with an IPR < 90% had more frequently a tacrolimus through level coefficient of variation >30% than patients with an IPR = 100% (66.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: While opportunistic infections are a frequent and challenging problem in kidney transplant recipients, their long-term epidemiology remains hardly known.
Methods: Opportunistic infections were recorded in 1144 recipients transplanted in our center between 2004 and 2015. Incidence rates and baseline risk factors were determined using joint frailty models.
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- A study evaluated the impact of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels on kidney transplant outcomes, focusing on T-cell mediated rejection (TCMR), anti-HLA donor-specific antibodies (dnDSAs), and graft survival in 253 kidney transplant recipients.
- The results showed that a high proportion of patients had sufficient 25(OH)D levels at the time of transplant, and those with adequate levels experienced less TCMR and longer dnDSA-free survival.
- Additionally, maintaining sufficient 25(OH)D levels during the first three years post-transplant was linked to improved graft survival, indicating the potential benefit of vitamin D in kidney transplant management.