Recurrence of renal amyloid and de novo membranous glomerulonephritis after transplantation

Transplantation
H HelinB Kuhlbäck

Abstract

Eleven patients with amyloidosis were treated for terminal renal failure by transplantation, receiving 12 cadaver allografts. In one patient the amyloidosis was primary and in the remaining 10 it was secondary to a chronic inflammatory disease. All of the patients were subjected to one or two fine-needle aspiration biopsies of the kidney graft during a followup of 11 to 68 months. The biopsies of three patients, one with primary amyloidosis and two with ankylosing spondylitis, revealed amyloid recurrence in the graft. These recurrences were diagnosed at 11, 28, or 37 months, respectively. The risk of amyloid recurrence is thus by no means negligible. The present study revealed no factors determining the development of recurrence. In two additional cases, membranous glomerulonephritis was observed in transplant biopsy. Both of these patients had rheumatoid arthritis as the underlying disease and were treated with gold salts before transplantation. It is suggested that an impaired immune response, related to amyloidosis and/or immunosuppressive therapy, may have favored the formation and deposition of circulating immune complexes.

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