HLA Antibody Incompatible Renal Transplantation: Long-term Outcomes Similar to Deceased Donor Transplantation.

Background: HLA incompatible renal transplantation still remains one of best therapeutic options for a subgroup of patients who are highly sensitized and difficult to match but not much is known about its long-term graft and patient survival.

Methods: One hundred thirty-four HLA incompatible renal transplantation patients from 2003 to 2018 with a median follow of 6.93 y were analyzed retrospectively to estimate patient and graft survivals.

Vitamin D to Prevent Lung Injury Following Esophagectomy-A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial.

Objectives: Observational studies suggest an association between vitamin D deficiency and adverse outcomes of critical illness and identify it as a potential risk factor for the development of lung injury. To determine whether preoperative administration of oral high-dose cholecalciferol ameliorates early acute lung injury postoperatively in adults undergoing elective esophagectomy.

Design: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial.

Kidney retransplantation from HLA-incompatible living donors: A single-center study of 3rd/4th transplants.

Background: The demand for kidney retransplantation following graft failure is rising. Repeat transplantation is often associated with poorer outcomes due to both immunological and surgical challenges. The aim of this study was to compare surgical and functional outcomes of kidney retransplantation in recipients that had previously had at least two kidney transplants with a focus on those with antibody incompatibility.

A complication to remember: stitch sinus following laparoscopic umbilical hernia repair.

This report describes a diagnostic dilemma and what we believe to be a previously unreported case of a stitch sinus caused by the presence of a non-absorbable centring suture used during laparoscopic mesh repair of an umbilical hernia. Successful treatment was achieved through umbilical excision and removal of the offending suture; the patient's recovery thereafter was uneventful. Surgeons should be aware of this complication when consenting patients and should consider the use of absorbable sutures to minimize such risk in similar procedures.

Pregnancy-induced HLA antibodies respond more vigorously after renal transplantation than antibodies induced by prior transplantation.

Acute antibody mediated rejection after HLA-specific antibody incompatible renal transplantation is related to donor specific HLA antibody (DSA) levels. DSA levels may rise sharply after transplant, and aim of this study was to examine changes in DSA levels, particularly according to the primary sensitising event. Changes in 220 HLA specificities in 64 patients over the first 30days after transplantation were evaluated using microbead assays.

Behaviour of non-donor specific antibodies during rapid re-synthesis of donor specific HLA antibodies after antibody incompatible renal transplantation.

Background: HLA directed antibodies play an important role in acute and chronic allograft rejection. During viral infection of a patient with HLA antibodies, the HLA antibody levels may rise even though there is no new immunization with antigen. However it is not known whether the converse occurs, and whether changes on non-donor specific antibodies are associated with any outcomes following HLA antibody incompatible renal transplantation.

Human leukocyte antigen-specific antibodies and gamma-interferon stimulate human microvascular and glomerular endothelial cells to produce complement factor C4.

Background: The role of the complement system in antibody-mediated rejection has been investigated in relation to circulating complement interacting with renal microvascular endothelium, resulting in the formation of peritubular capillary C4d. However, the possible importance of local complement synthesis is less clear. The aim of this study was to determine whether human vascular endothelium could produce C4 in response to stimulation in vitro.

Peritonitis secondary to traumatic duodenal laceration in the presence of a large pancreatic pseudocyst: a case report.

Introduction: A pancreatic pseudocyst is a common sequela of severe acute pancreatitis. Commonly, it presents with abdominal pain and a mass in the epigastrium several weeks after the acute episode and can be managed conservatively, endoscopically or surgically. We report a patient with a pancreatic pseudocyst awaiting endoscopic therapy who developed a life-threatening complication following a rather innocuous trauma to the abdomen.

Human leukocyte antigen antibody-incompatible renal transplantation: excellent medium-term outcomes with negative cytotoxic crossmatch.

Background: Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibody-incompatible renal transplantation has been increasingly performed since 2000 but with few data on the medium-term outcomes.

Methods: Between 2003 and 2011, 84 patients received renal transplants with a pretreatment donor-specific antibody (DSA) level of more than 500 in a microbead assay. Seventeen patients had positive complement-dependent cytotoxic (CDC) crossmatch (XM), 44 had negative CDC XM and positive flow cytometric XM, and 23 had DSA detectable by microbead only.

Double filtration plasmapheresis in antibody-incompatible kidney transplantation.

Double filtration plasmapheresis (DFPP) was used in preference to plasma exchange in our program of antibody-incompatible transplantation, to treat higher volumes of plasma. Forty-two patients had 259 sessions of DFPP, 201 pre-transplant and 58 post-transplant. At the first treatment session, the mean plasma volume treated was 3.

Soluble CD30 and Cd27 levels in patients undergoing HLA antibody-incompatible renal transplantation.

HLA antibody-incompatible transplantation has a higher risk of rejection when compared to standard renal transplantation. Soluble CD30 (sCD30) has been shown in many, but not all, studies to be a biomarker for risk of rejection in standard renal transplant recipients. We sought to define the value of sCD30 and soluble CD27 (sCD27) in patients receiving HLA antibody-incompatible transplants.

The histological development of acute antibody-mediated rejection in HLA antibody-incompatible renal transplantation.

Background: The aim of this study was to examine the development of acute antibody-mediated rejection in HLA antibody-incompatible renal transplantation in relation to the Banff 07 histological classification.

Methods: Renal biopsies were scored using the Banff 07 diagnostic criteria, and paraffin-embedded sections were stained with the pan-leucocyte marker CD45.

Results: Thirty-six patients had 72 renal biopsies.

Rises and falls in donor-specific and third-party HLA antibody levels after antibody incompatible transplantation.

Background: After human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibody-incompatible transplantation, donor specific and third party HLA antibodies may be found, and their levels fall in a donor-specific manner during the first month. However, these changes have not been previously described in detail.

Methods: Donor-specific HLA antibody (DSA) and third-party HLA antibody (TPA) levels were measured using the microbead method in 44 presensitized patients who had renal transplantation.

Application of flow cytometry to monitor antibody levels in ABO incompatible kidney transplantation.

Current methods of measuring ABO antibody levels based on the hemagglutination (HA) titers have the disadvantages of relatively poor reproducibility and do not offer fine discrimination of antibody concentration. We therefore developed a simple and rapid method of measuring ABO antibody levels using flow cytometry (FC). For validation, we analyzed plasma samples from 79 blood donors.

Blood levels of donor-specific human leukocyte antigen antibodies after renal transplantation: resolution of rejection in the presence of circulating donor-specific antibody.

Background: Accommodation to antibody is an important mechanism in successful ABO-incompatible transplantation, but its importance in human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibody-incompatible transplantation is less clear, as sensitive techniques facilitating daily measurement of donor-specific HLA antibodies (DSAs) have only recently been developed.

Methods: We report 24 patients who had HLA antibody-incompatible kidney transplantation (21 living donors, 3 deceased), 21 of whom had pretransplant plasmapheresis. Eight had positive complement-dependent cytotoxic (CDC) crossmatch (XM) pretransplant plasmapheresis, nine had positive flow cytometric (FC) XM, and seven had DSA detectable by microbead analysis only.

Physiologic impact of low-dose dopamine on renal function in the early post renal transplant period.

Background: Low-dose dopamine (LDD) (< or =5.0 microg/kg/min) is often used in the early postrenal transplant period for its perceived improvements in renal function parameters. However, there is little published evidence to support its use.

Quantitative detection of changes in cytokine gene expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells correlates with and precedes acute rejection in renal transplant recipients.

Immunological monitoring of transplant recipients is an attractive concept. Cytokines provide an obvious focus for research, as they are central to the human immune response. This study aimed to identify cytokines whose sequential gene expression differentiated rejectors from non-rejectors immediately following renal transplantation.

House keeping genes and gene expression analysis in transplant recipients: a note of caution.

Background: House keeping genes are often used as a means of standardising results obtained in gene expression investigations. This study was performed to investigate whether beta-actin, beta2-microglobulin (two genes frequently quoted as house keeping genes) and/or transferrin receptor would be suitable house keeping genes for use in gene expression analysis of renal transplant recipients.

Methods: Sequential expression of all three genes was measured in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of 13 living donors and 45 renal transplant recipients, pre-operatively and then daily for up to 2 weeks.

Comparative evaluation of 'TaqMan' RT-PCR and RT-PCR ELISA for immunological monitoring of renal transplant recipients.

By sequentially monitoring cytokine gene expression (using RT-PCR ELISA technology) in peripheral blood cells of renal transplant recipients in the early post-operatively period we have shown that expression patterns correlate with clinical events, namely acute allograft rejection. This strategy may have the potential of predicting acute rejection prior to clinical detection. Unfortunately, the technique used was time consuming and only semi-quantitative and, therefore, not suitable for clinical application.