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  • Title: Urine fibrin degradation products in detection and management of acute and chronic renal transplant rejection.
    Author: Cattran DC, Hockley M, Fenton SS, Wilson DR.
    Journal: Clin Nephrol; 1977 Jun; 7(6):255-61. PubMed ID: 326454.
    Abstract:
    Detection of rejection by serial determinations of urine FDP using the latex agglutination slide test proved to be a reliable, simple and inexpensive method. In the absence of infection, clinical and biochemical acute rejection was preceded by a two-titer rise in excretion of urine FDP in 80% of 26 patients studied. It was not useful in predicting rejection in 44 stable long-term allograft recipients, although persistent elevation of urine FDP after anti-rejection therapy in these patients or those in the immediate post-transplant period implies ongoing rejection. Maintenance immunosuppression should be continued in these patients, but repeated high-dose steroid therapy should be limited because of their poor-term prognosis. Persistent increase in urine FDP may allow selection of those patients who would benefit from a trial of anticoagulant or antiplatelet therapy.
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