Red cell antigens and renal transplantation

Transplantation
J K DuguidJ M Bone

Abstract

Donor-specific transfusion was performed with and without cyclosporine between haplomismatched relatives prior to living-donor renal transplantation. Red cell antigen mismatching was not taken as a contraindication to DST. Of 80 patients included in the trial; eleven were ABO-mismatched, 15 were Rh(D)-mismatched, and a further 11 were transfused in the presence of atypical red cell antibodies (anti-D, -C, -Fya, -Kell -N, -H/I -I, -P1, -Wra). Patients were randomized to receive cyclosporine (10 mg/kg) daily during DST or not (control group). The presence of atypical red cell antibodies, with the exception of Rh anti-D, did not appear to influence DST or renal transplantation. DST did not act as a primary stimulus to Rh anti-D production but stimulated preexisting anti D levels. ABO mismatching did not appear to influence DST or subsequent renal transplantation except in one group A [corrected] patient who received group O [corrected] blood and cyclosporine. This patient developed a severe, but self-limiting, autoimmune hemolytic anemia due to auto-anti A antibodies. A similar group A patient in the control group developed an auto-antibody with no clinical sequelae. The influence of cyclosporine on the development of this auto-an...Continue Reading

Citations

Mar 1, 1997·Transfusion·N F SabaM S Schanfield
May 1, 1996·Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research·D L MuscoloE Santini Araujo

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