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Donor-specific antibodies require preactivated immune system to harm renal transplant

Background It is an unresolved issue why some kidney transplant recipients with pretransplant donor-specific HLA antibodies (DSA) show a high transplant failure rate, whereas in other patients DSA do not harm the graft. We investigated whether help from preactivated T-cells might be necessary for DSA to exert a deleterious effect. Methods The impact of pretransplant DSA and immune activation marker soluble CD30 (sCD30) on 3-year graft survival was analyzed in 385 presensitized kidney transplant recipients. Findings A deleterious influence of pretransplant DSA on graft survival was evident only in patients who were positive for the immune activation marker sCD30. In the absence of sCD30 positivity, 3-year graft survival was virtually identical in patients with or without DSA (83·1±3·9% and 84·3±2·8%, P=0·81). A strikingly lower 3-year graft survival rate of 62·1±6·4% was observed in patients who were both sCD30 and DSA positive (HR 2·92, P<0·001). Even in the presence of strong DSA with ≥5, 000 MFI, the 3-year graft survival rate was high if the recipients were sCD30 negative. Interpretation Pretransplant DSA have a significantly deleterious impact on graft survival only in the presence of high pretransplant levels of the activation marker sCD30.

Single antigen bead ; HLA antibodies ; donor-specific antibodies ; sCD30 ; kidney transplantation ; graft outcome

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