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BACKGROUND: The Nephrology Unit at São Lucas Hospital, a University Hospital in Southern Brazil, has recently reached 35 years since its first kidney transplant. Few centers in the area have made a longitudinal analysis of processes, problems, grafts, and patient survival changes along this time. METHODS: A single-center, retrospective study was performed. Data were separated into different eras, based on the nature of immunosuppression used: pre-cyclosporine (1978-1986), cyclosporine (1987-1997), mycophenolate introduction (1998-2002), new immunosuppressant drugs (2003-2007), and the current period (2008-2013). RESULTS: Between April 27, 1978, and April 30, 2013, 1231 transplants were performed. Significant differences were detected among different eras. The number of transplants has been progressively increasing, to include significantly older recipients (and donors), at a longer waiting list time, receiving organs that underwent longer cold ischemia time (P < .001). Yet, fewer acute rejection episodes and lower incidence of myocardial infarction and post-transplant diabetes mellitus (P < .001) were detected. In the present era, patient survival at 1, 3, and 5 years is 98.3%, 94.6%, and 90.5% respectively, for living donors, and 92.4%, 87.2%, and 80.7% for deceased donors, respectively. Living donor graft survival is 92.2%, 88.7%, and 82.4%, respectively, whereas deceased donor survival is 80.4%, 71.1%, and 63.7%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: This retrospective analysis has significant historical value. It assembles and depicts a long follow-up period of a transplant series at a single Brazilian center. Throughout the eras, organ and patient survival increased, with fewer rejection episodes or complications, yet with overall decreased graft function.
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Trasplante de Riñón/tendencias , Donantes de Tejidos/provisión & distribución , Adulto , Brasil , Femenino , Hospitales Universitarios , Humanos , Trasplante de Riñón/mortalidad , Persona de Mediana Edad , Estudios RetrospectivosRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Solid organ transplant recipients are susceptible to antibiotic-resistant infections and carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) has recently been recognized as a serious complication in solid organ recipients. High mortality rates have been described. METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed 807 transplantations and detected 10 patients who died 24 hours after the diagnosis of septicemia, all with CRAB-positive blood cultures. Recipients were followed up for at least 1 year and were stratified into the following groups: Group 1, patients alive; Group 2, patients that died due to other causes except Acinetobacter infection; and Group 3, patients who died within 24 hours of CRAB diagnosis. RESULTS: CRAB-positive patients died a median of 3.17 (range, 1.81-18.7) months after transplantation. In these patients, expanded criteria donors (ECDs) were more frequent (P < .001), as were the use of anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) induction (P = .02) and delayed graft function (P = .01). For ECD recipients, death rate from any cause, whether induced with ATG or not, was 25% and 20.6%, respectively (odds ratio [OR], 1.28; confidence interval [CI] 95%, 0.56-2.91; P = .68). The death rate from CRAB-related sepsis was 10.3% and 0% whether receiving ATG or not, respectively (OR, 15.49; CI 95%, 0.87-277.16; P = .014). There was a 25.75-fold increase in the death rate in ECD kidney recipients induced with thymoglobulin and with CRAB-related sepsis. CONCLUSION: Transplants from ECDs and induced with thymoglobulin may be at increased risk of CRAB death in 24 hours when compared with patients with standard donors and induced with thymoglobulin.
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Infecciones por Acinetobacter/mortalidad , Suero Antilinfocítico/uso terapéutico , Rechazo de Injerto/prevención & control , Inmunosupresores/uso terapéutico , Trasplante de Riñón , Trasplante de Páncreas , Complicaciones Posoperatorias/mortalidad , Sepsis/mortalidad , Infecciones por Acinetobacter/microbiología , Acinetobacter baumannii , Adulto , Brasil/epidemiología , Carbapenémicos , Funcionamiento Retardado del Injerto/epidemiología , Susceptibilidad a Enfermedades , Selección de Donante , Farmacorresistencia Bacteriana , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Oportunidad Relativa , Complicaciones Posoperatorias/microbiología , Estudios Retrospectivos , Factores de Riesgo , Sepsis/microbiología , Donantes de TejidosRESUMEN
Acute graft pyelonephritis is a very common infection in renal transplantation. The impact of acute graft pyelonephritis (AGPN) on graft and patient outcome has not yet been established. Eight hundred seventy kidney and kidney-pancreas transplants were retrospectively studied, over last 13 years, to verify occurrence of AGPN in the first 30 days post-transplantation. We found that 112 patients (15.8%) presented post-transplantatiom AGPN up to 30 days after a kidney transplantation. The occurrence was higher in older patients (P = .005) and in those with ureteral stents (P = .06). Escherichia coli was the most frequent microorganism in urine cultures (32%). Ureteral stent (relative risk = 1.7; confidence interval [CI], 1.1-2.5; P = .018) was a major risk factor for AGPN as well as older ages (RR = 1.02; CI 1.01-1.04; P = .001), length of hospitalization stay (RR = 1.01; CI, 1.01-1.02; P < .001), and anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) induction (RR = 1.6; CI, 1.022-2.561; P = .04). Long-term graft and patient survival was significantly lower in patients with pyelonephritis in the first 30 days after transplantation (OR 1.43; 95% CI, 0.95-2.16; P = .024 and OR 1.77; 95% CI, 1.12-2.80; P = .006, respectively). Acute pyelonephritis in the first 30 days after transplantation is therefore associated with a lower long-term graft and patient survival.
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Suero Antilinfocítico/uso terapéutico , Infecciones por Escherichia coli/epidemiología , Rechazo de Injerto/prevención & control , Inmunosupresores/uso terapéutico , Trasplante de Riñón , Complicaciones Posoperatorias/epidemiología , Pielonefritis/epidemiología , Infecciones Urinarias/epidemiología , Enfermedad Aguda , Adulto , Factores de Edad , Brasil/epidemiología , Femenino , Supervivencia de Injerto , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Estudios Retrospectivos , Factores de Riesgo , Stents , Tasa de Supervivencia , Uréter/cirugía , Adulto JovenRESUMEN
Metabolic surgery for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in patients not morbidly obese (BMI <35) has been widely studied. Taking into account that â¼12% of pancreas transplants are performed in patients with T2DM, our goal was to evaluate the impact of metabolic surgery on the management of obese patients with T2DM on waiting lists for a pancreas transplant. We performed a Roux-en-Y gastrointestinal bypass in 5 patients with insulin-dependent T2DM who were candidates for pancreas after kidney transplant and with a BMI <35. Three patients became insulin independent by the end of the first year while the other 2 reduced their insulin requirements by 70%. Furthermore, all patients achieved improved control of lipid levels. We concluded that the surgery was effective in controlling blood glucose and lipid metabolism in these obese T2DM kidney transplant recipients. In this population, a pancreas transplant, along with its associated morbidity, may be avoided.
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Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/cirugía , Derivación Gástrica , Trasplante de Riñón , Anciano , Glucemia/análisis , Colesterol/sangre , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/sangre , Femenino , Hemoglobina Glucada , Humanos , Hipoglucemiantes/uso terapéutico , Insulina/uso terapéutico , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Trasplante de Páncreas , Triglicéridos/sangreRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Polyomavirus BK (BKV) is currently considered one of the most important infectious diseases in kidney transplants recipients. The prevalence of decoy cells (viral containing shed urothelial cells) in these patients varies between 20% and 60%. Of decoy-positive patients, 1%-8% develop BKV nephropathy, a finding that may be associated with graft failure in up to 80% of affected individuals. METHODS: Decoy cells cytology is an easily performed and inexpensive assay useful for poliomavirus infection screening. Data on the prevalence of decoy cells in simultaneous pancreas-kidney or isolated pancreas recipients remains largely unreported. In the present study, we evaluated 221 patients ≥18 years old with >1 month follow-up after transplantation who had attended the outpatient clinic between September and December 2006. RESULTS: The total prevalence of decoy cells was 16% (16.9% in kidney recipients, 5.9% in simultaneous kidney-pancreas recipients and 20% in pancreas alone recipients). There were no differences between patients with either positive or negative urinary cytology for decoy cells, regarding demographic (gender, age, race) or clinical (time posttransplantation, donor type [deceased vs living donation], and presence of delayed graft function or rejection, other associated viral infections and type of immunosuppressive drugs variables.