PMID: 30804276Feb 26, 2019Paper

Management and outcome of latent tuberculosis in living renal transplant donors

Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation : an Official Publication of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Saudi Arabia
Wael T HabhabMashael Alwaassia

Abstract

In regions where tuberculosis (TB) is endemic, up to 15% of kidney transplant recipients develop Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections (TBI), typically with an increased risk of disseminated disease and allograft loss. To reduce these risks, donors and recipients with latent TB usually receive isoniazid (INH) prophylaxis. However, it is unclear whether latent TB in donors justifies routine prophylaxis of recipients. At our institution, donors and recipients with latent infection receive INH prophylaxis, and those who do not have latent infections are not routinely treated. We retrospectively analyzed the records of 269 living donor kidney transplant recipient and donor pairs in order to determine the risk of posttransplant TB in those whose kidneys were obtained from living donors with latent TB. Three recipients (1.1%) developed active TB, three, 11, and 12 months after transplantation. Neither donors nor recipients in these pairs had evidence of latent TB before transplantation. Of the 224 pairs with complete data, 24 transplant recipients with negative tuberculin skin test received organs from living donors with evidence of latent TB. None developed active TB, and kidney function one and three years later was preserved. Our ...Continue Reading

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