Late calcineurin inhibitor withdrawal as a strategy to prevent graft loss in patients with suboptimal kidney transplant function

American Journal of Nephrology
M R WeirJ C Fink

Abstract

Chronic allograft nephropathy is a major cause of progressive renal failure in renal transplant recipients. Its etiology is multifactorial and may include both immunologic and nonimmunologic causes. In this observational cohort study we set out to see if calcineurin inhibitor withdrawal would reduce the likelihood of graft loss. One hundred and five renal transplant recipients with impaired kidney function (mean serum creatinine 3.0 +/- 0.1 mg/dl) and biopsy-proven chronic allograft nephropathy had the dose of their calcineurin inhibitors, cyclosporine (CSA), or tacrolimus (FK), reduced or discontinued with either the addition of, or continuation of mycophenolate mofetil and low-dose corticosteroids. This intervention occurred at a mean of 29.0 +/- 2.7 months after transplantation. Follow-up after intervention was 54.3 +/- 4.1 months in the reduced CSA group (n = 64), 41.6 +/- 3.2 months in the reduced FK group (n = 28), and 75.5 +/- 6.7 months in the calcineurin inhibitor withdrawal group (n = 13). There were 24 graft failures in the reduced CSA group, 9 graft failures in the reduced FK group, and 1 graft lost in the calcineurin inhibitor withdrawal group. The unadjusted relative risk for graft failure in the CSA and FK groups...Continue Reading

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