The use of cyclosporin A and prednisone in cadaver kidney transplantation.

نویسندگان

  • T E Starzl
  • R Weil
  • S Iwatsuki
  • G Klintmalm
  • G P Schröter
  • L J Koep
  • Y Iwaki
  • P I Terasaki
  • K A Porter
چکیده

Eighteen patients were treated with primary cadaveric renal transplantation using cyclosporin A therapy, and four more patients undersent cadaveric retransplantation. Eleven of the 22 recipients were conditioned with lymphoid depletion before transplantation, using thoracic duct drainage or lymphapheresis for two to eight and one-half weeks. Cyclosporin A was begun a few hours before grafting. The other 11 patients were pretreated with cyclosporin A for from one day to 18 days. After transplantation, the majority of patients in both subgroups of 11 had rejection develop, but in most, the immunologic process was readily controlled with relatively small dosages of prednisone. After follow-up periods of two to four and one-half months, one patient has died of the complications of a coronary artery reconstruction that was not related to the transplantation. Another graft was lost from rejection, and a third organ was removed because of ureteral necrosis. Nineteen of the original 22 cadaveric kidneys are functioning, including 17 of the 18 kidneys given to patients who were undergoing transplantation for the first time. The only loss in the latter group of 18 patients was in the patient who died after an open heart operation. Results of these studies have shown that cyclosporin A is a superior and safe immunosuppressive drug but that, for optimal use in cadaveric transplantation, it usually should not be given alone. Steroid therapy greatly amplified the value of cyclosporin A. Unless major delayed morbidity develops which is not obvious so far, this drug combination should permit revolutionary advances in the transplantation of all organs. Other adjuncts to the cyclosporin A-steroid combination, including lymphoid depletion techniques, will require further investigation.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Surgery, gynecology & obstetrics

دوره 151 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1980