Acute renal failure in kidney transplant patients treated with interferon alpha 2b for chronic hepatitis C

Nephron
Lionel RostaingD Durand

Abstract

Sixteen kidney transplant (KT) patients (10 men, 6 women, aged 49 +/- 10 years) with chronic hepatitis C alpha-interferon (IFN-alpha) therapy (Intron A, Schering Plough) at a dose of 3 x 10(6) units subcutaneously 3 times a week. The treatment was scheduled for 24 consecutive weeks. Each patient had had stable renal function for at least 12 months prior to IFN-alpha therapy (mean serum creatinine, SCr, 121 +/- 38 mmol/l). Fourteen patients were receiving cyclosporin-A (CsA)-based immunosuppression and 2 patients were on conventional therapy. The patients' SCr was checked every 2 weeks while on IFN-alpha, or weekly if it increased more than 15% from baseline. IFN-alpha was withdrawn if SCr increased more than 25% from baseline, in which case a kidney biopsy was performed. Six patients experienced either acute (n = 5) or subacute (n = 1) renal failure within 7-24 weeks after the onset of IFN-alpha therapy. Their mean SCr increased from 105 +/- 31 to 207 +/- 63 mmol/l (p = 0.02) with de novo proteinuria in 1 case (1 g/day) and an increase in preexisting proteinuria in 2. The other 3 patients did not develop proteinuria. In each case, histological study showed diffuse interstitial edema associated with dilation of the peritubular c...Continue Reading

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