The incidence of post-transplant malignancies in kidney transplant recipients treated with Rituximab
VISENTIN, Jonathan
Immunology from Concept and Experiments to Translation = Immunologie Conceptuelle, Expérimentale et Translationnelle [ImmunoConcept]
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Immunology from Concept and Experiments to Translation = Immunologie Conceptuelle, Expérimentale et Translationnelle [ImmunoConcept]
VISENTIN, Jonathan
Immunology from Concept and Experiments to Translation = Immunologie Conceptuelle, Expérimentale et Translationnelle [ImmunoConcept]
Immunology from Concept and Experiments to Translation = Immunologie Conceptuelle, Expérimentale et Translationnelle [ImmunoConcept]
KAMINSKI, Hannah
Immunology from Concept and Experiments to Translation = Immunologie Conceptuelle, Expérimentale et Translationnelle [ImmunoConcept]
Immunology from Concept and Experiments to Translation = Immunologie Conceptuelle, Expérimentale et Translationnelle [ImmunoConcept]
MERVILLE, Pierre
Immunology from Concept and Experiments to Translation = Immunologie Conceptuelle, Expérimentale et Translationnelle [ImmunoConcept]
Immunology from Concept and Experiments to Translation = Immunologie Conceptuelle, Expérimentale et Translationnelle [ImmunoConcept]
COUZI, Lionel
Immunology from Concept and Experiments to Translation = Immunologie Conceptuelle, Expérimentale et Translationnelle [ImmunoConcept]
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Immunology from Concept and Experiments to Translation = Immunologie Conceptuelle, Expérimentale et Translationnelle [ImmunoConcept]
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Clinical Transplantation. 2021-02, vol. 35, n° 2, p. e14171
English Abstract
Background: Rituximab has been proposed as induction therapy in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) with preformed donor-specific antibodies (DSA) or a positive flow cross-match. We here evaluated whether adding rituximab ...Read more >
Background: Rituximab has been proposed as induction therapy in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) with preformed donor-specific antibodies (DSA) or a positive flow cross-match. We here evaluated whether adding rituximab was associated with a higher incidence of post-transplant malignancies (PTM) due to greater immunosuppression. Patients and Methods: Forty-eight HLA-sensitized KTRs received induction therapy with anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) and rituximab because of preformed DSA or a positive flow cross-match (RTX group). They were compared with a control group of 154 patients receiving ATG alone. Results: Thirty-nine of 202 (19.3%) patients developed PTM; the rate was similar in the RTX and no-RTX groups (14.6% vs. 20.8%, respectively, P=.3). The distributions of the types of cancer were similar between the two groups, with the majority being non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC, n=24). The risk factors for PTM were male gender, age, history of cancer, and azathioprine. Conclusion: Our data do not indicate a higher rate of post-transplantation de novo malignancies after kidney transplantation in high-immunological risk patients who received induction therapy based on ATG and rituximab.Read less <
English Keywords
Alloantibodies
B-cell therapy
Malignancy
Rituximab
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