Elsevier

Transplantation Proceedings

Volume 31, Issues 1–2, February–March 1999, Pages 230-233
Transplantation Proceedings

Proceedings of the XVIIth World Congress of the Transplantation Society
Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome and posttransplant renal thrombosis

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Materials and methods

During the study period of June 1995 till December 1996, a total of 174 patients (88 males, 86 females) awaiting either primary or retransplantation was included in this study. The following two criteria were used to determine if a patient had APAS. The first included a history of clotting disorders, including one or more of the following: (1) biopsy–established microrenal angiopathy, (2) >2 episodes of A–V shunt thrombosis, (3) cerebrovascular thrombosis, (4) thrombocytopenia, and/or (5)

Results

Of the 174 patients awaiting kidney transplantation, 78 received their transplants during the study period. The transplanted kidneys were from either cadaveric or living donors. The donor specific compatibility for recipients of primary transplants were determined by negative T cell flow cytometry21 and T cell (AHG) and B cell cytotoxicity crossmatches,20 whereas the donor specific compatibility for regraft recipients were determined by an additional assay—viz, the negative skin crossmatch

Discussion

The data supported the hypothesis that ESRD patients with antiphospholipid antibody syndrome are at high risk for the development of posttransplant renal thrombosis. These results are statistically highly significant (P < .0001). Since circulating ACA is central to the definition of APAS, our patients’ sera were further tested to determine if a specific isotype of ACA was associated with posttransplant renal thrombosis. ACA of either isotype (ie, IgG or IgM) was associated with posttransplant

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