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  • Title: Acute rejection episodes after renal transplantation in children.
    Author: Hoyer PF, Offner G, Brodehl J.
    Journal: Clin Nephrol; 1983 Feb; 19(2):61-6. PubMed ID: 6340876.
    Abstract:
    46 renal transplants performed in children at the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover between 1975 and 1980 are evaluated for the occurrence of acute rejection episodes. 33 patients received cadaveric donor grafts (CAD) and 13 living donor grafts (LD). Immunosuppression was carried out with prednisone and azathioprine. 14 patients were treated additionally with antilymphocyte globulin (ALG). A total of 68 acute rejection episodes occurred, 38% of them within the first week of transplantation, and the latest 3 years after transplantation. The most important signs of acute rejection were a rise in serum creatinine concentration, a decrease in urine output and fever. Patients with living donor grafts and full-house matched kidneys had fewer reversible and irreversible rejection episodes than did patients with grafts from cadaveric donors and with grafts with 1-4 mismatches. The value of ALG treatment is doubtful: only 1 out of 14 patients who received ALG treatment experienced no rejection episodes compared to 12 out of 33 patients who did not have ALG treatment. 2.4 rejection episodes/patient occurred in patients who had cadaver grafts and had received ALG compared to 1.17 episodes/patient in similar patients who had not received ALG. Irreversible rejection episodes occurred in 4 out of 9 ALG-treated and in 3 out of 23 non-ALG-treated recipients of cadaver grafts.
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