Objectives: SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine reactogenicity has raised concerns regarding the risk of rejection in solid organ transplant recipients. We explored whether SOT recipients diagnosed with acute rejection had previously received a vaccine injection within a timeframe consistent with a causal link.
Methods: We identified all SOT recipients with a diagnosis of acute rejection from 2020 to 2022 and who had previously received a SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, and analysed whether the delay between vaccination and rejection was constant.
Standard immunosuppressive therapy for lung transplant recipients combines a calcineurin inhibitor, an antimetabolite, and corticosteroids. In an observational, retrospective, monocentric study, we sought to compare the development of chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) between 37 patients who received this standard therapy (triple-therapy group) and 59 patients who received the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor everolimus in addition to the standard therapy (quadruple-therapy group). In the quadruple-therapy group, the time elapsed from transplantation to everolimus introduction (median [25th-75th percentile]) was 12 [7-25] months.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMastering and monitoring immunosuppressant concentrations is central to the care of lung transplant patients and involves multiple stakeholders. The objective is to conduct a risk analysis to evaluate the impact of various actions taken. The lung transplantation team was convened to carry out a failure mode effect analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNew therapeutic approaches to treat type 1 diabetes mellitus relies on pancreatic islet transplantation. Here, developing immuno-isolation strategies is essential to eliminate the need for systemic immunosuppression after pancreatic islet grafts. A solution is the macro-encapsulation of grafts in semipermeable matrixes with a double function: separating islets from host immune cells and facilitating the diffusion of insulin, glucose, and other metabolites.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmongst the range of bioprinting technologies currently available, bioprinting by material extrusion is gaining increasing popularity due to accessibility, low cost, and the absence of energy sources, such as lasers, which may significantly damage the cells. New applications of extrusion-based bioprinting are systematically emerging in the biomedical field in relation to tissue and organ fabrication. Extrusion-based bioprinting presents a series of specific challenges in relation to achievable resolutions, accuracy and speed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCalcineurin inhibitors (CNIs) are critical in preventing rejection posttransplantation but pose an increased risk of post-transplant diabetes (PTD). Recent studies show that late conversion from CNIs to belatacept, a costimulation blocker, improves HbA1c in kidney transplant recipients with PTD or diabetes. This study investigates whether the observed effects on PTD stem solely from CNI withdrawal or if belatacept influences PTD independently.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Endocrinol (Lausanne)
April 2024
Introduction: Diabetes is a global health concern characterized by chronic hyperglycemia resulting from insulinopenia and/or insulin resistance. The rising prevalence of diabetes and its associated complications (ulcers, periodontitis, healing of bone defect, neuropathy, retinopathy, cardiopathy and nephropathy) necessitate innovative therapeutic approaches. Photobiomodulation (PBM), involves exposing tissues and cells to low-energy light radiation, leading to biological effects, largely via mitochondrial activation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCell protein biosynthesis is regulated by different factors, but implication of intercellular contacts on alpha and beta cell protein biosyntheses activity has not been yet investigated. Islet cell biosynthetic activity is essential in regulating not only the hormonal reserve within cells but also in renewing all the proteins involved in the control of secretion. Here we aimed to assess whether intercellular interactions affected similarly secretion and protein biosynthesis of rat alpha and beta cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Clinical trials are an opportunity for patients to access innovative therapy, but patient inclusion in clinical trials can also result in cost savings for hospitals. Our objective was to evaluate the economic impact of clinical trials drug cost savings in a French academic institution from the perspectives of both the French Health Insurance (FHI) and hospitals.
Methods: A retrospective, observational, cost saving analysis was performed on all the clinical trials initiated in our university hospital between 2015 and 2020.
Objectives: On the basis of its safety and accuracy, automation is recommended for parenteral nutrition (PN). The aim of this study was to highlight the changes in practices related to the automation of PN and to perform a cost study comparing manual vs automated production costs.
Methods: We conducted a micro-costing study using 1 year of manual production data for adult, neonatal and paediatric PN bagsat a hospital.
Background: A fourth dose of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is recommended in solid-organ transplant (SOT) recipients, but the immunogenicity is poorly known.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective, observational, monocentric study between the 1st January 2021 and 31st March 2022 of the anti-Spike antibody titers after one to four doses of vaccine in SOT.
Results: 825 SOT were included.
Automated compounding device (ACD) are increasingly used for parenteral nutrition (PN) bag production, and their acquisition must be sufficiently thought. The law requires the qualification of these ACD, but did not specify the tests to be performed. The quality by design (QbD) risk based approach allowed to define the quality target product profile in order to acquire the best ACD for each unit, and thanks a risk analysis permitted to define the critical quality attributes (CQA).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe management of immunosuppressors in solid organ transplantation requires pharmacological therapeutic monitoring with regular adaptation of the dosage to the residual level. An obvious cause of these fluctuations is drug interactions, particularly for mTOR inhibitors and anti-calcineurin drugs, which are highly metabolized by cytochromes P450. A 72-year-old lung transplanted man, treated by tacrolimus and everolimus in the long term, had his residual immunosuppressor levels unbalanced by the introduction of sotorasib, which is used for metastatic pulmonary adenocarcinoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) is most of the time caused by thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura or hemolytic uremic syndrome. A 60-year-old female was diagnosed in 2014 with mammary breast adenocarcinoma treated by several-line therapy: mastectomy, docetaxel, cyclophosphamide, radiotherapy, doxorubicine, and capecitabine. By mid-November, the patient was admitted to the hospital with regenerative, mechanical, and hemolytic anemia, schistocytes at 3%, and thrombopenia (99 G/L), associated with high blood transfusion requirement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFpneumonia is an opportunistic disease usually prevented by trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. A 49-year-old HLA-sensitized male with successful late conversion from tacrolimus-based to belatacept-based immunosuppression developed pneumonia for which he presented several risks factors: low lymphocyte count with no CD4+ T cells detected since 2 years, hypogammaglobulinemia, history of acute cellular rejection 3 years before, and immunosuppressive treatment (belatacept, everolimus). Because of respiratory gravity in the acute phase, the patient was given oxygen, corticosteroids, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to assess the global mapping risk of human islet isolation, using a failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), and highlight the impact of quality assurance procedures on the risk level of criticality. Risks were scored using the risk priority number (RPN) scoring method. The risk level of criticality was made based on RPN and led to risk classification (low to critical).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMany variables impact islet isolation, including pancreas ischemia time. The ischemia time upper limit that should be respected to avoid a negative impact on the isolation outcome is not well defined. We have performed a retrospective analysis of all islet isolations in our center between 2008 and 2018.
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