Pediatric renal transplantation without steroids.
Pediatr Nephrol
; 12(2): 87-92, 1998 Feb.
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| ID: mdl-9543361
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, a procedure that not only inhibits growth but also carries an additional risk of acute rejection due to a steroid-adapted immune response.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Esteroides
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Transplante de Rim
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Ciclosporina
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Imunossupressores
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Ácido Micofenólico
Tipo de estudo:
Guideline
Limite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Pediatr Nephrol
Assunto da revista:
NEFROLOGIA
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PEDIATRIA
Ano de publicação:
1998
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Dinamarca