PMID: 9543361Apr 16, 1998Paper

Pediatric renal transplantation without steroids

Pediatric Nephrology : Journal of the International Pediatric Nephrology Association
S A BirkelandN Rohr

Abstract

Pediatric renal transplant patients present a number of challenges and problems, especially the inhibited post-transplant growth seen in children receiving standard immunosuppressive triple therapy that includes steroids. We report the successful use of steroid-free immunosuppression since 1990 in 14 pediatric renal allograft recipients who received a 10-day initial course of anti-lymphocyte globulin and surface area-adjusted doses of cyclosporine, 7 of whom also received mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) as maintenance immunosuppression. Only 1 patient died (3 months after transplantation as a result of a primary Epstein-Barr virus infection-induced lymphoproliferative disorder), 1 patient's graft never functioned, and another patient lost his graft after 3 years because of chronic rejection. Three patients experienced early acute cellular rejection, which resolved in 2 cases with OKT3, and in the 3rd with MMF. There were no late acute rejections. All patients evidenced growth and a growth spurt under this regimen. We conclude that all the pediatric patients benefited from our steroid-free protocol and that this protocol is superior to conventional triple therapies, which entail the eventual reduction and discontinuation of steroids...Continue Reading

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