Induction treatment with rabbit antithymocyte globulin versus basiliximab in renal transplant recipients with planned early steroid withdrawal.

Abstract:

STUDY OBJECTIVE:To compare the safety and efficacy of rabbit antithymocyte globulin (r-ATG) with basiliximab in renal transplant recipients for whom an early steroid withdrawal (ESW) regimen was planned. DESIGN:Single-center, retrospective, cohort study. SETTING:Tertiary care medical center, including inpatient hospital stays and outpatient nephrology clinics. PATIENTS:Ninety-nine consecutive adult recipients of living- or deceased-donor renal transplants between January 1, 2004, and December 31, 2007, in whom ESW was planned and who received either r-ATG or basiliximab; patients receiving an extended-criteria kidney donation or a donation after cardiac death were excluded. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:All patients received mycophenolate mofetil and tacrolimus as maintenance therapy with planned ESW. Induction therapy was either r-ATG 1.5 mg/kg/day for 4 days (68 patients) or basiliximab 20 mg on postoperative days 0 and 4 (31 patients). The primary composite end point of biopsy-proven acute rejection (BPAR), graft loss, and death occurred in 6 patients (9%) and 9 patients (29%) in the r-ATG and basiliximab groups at 1 year after transplantation, respectively (p=0.01), with rates of 7% (5/68 patients) and 26% (8/31 patients) for BPAR (p=0.02), 0% and 3% (1/31 patients) for graft loss (p=0.31), and 2% (1/68 patients) and 0% for patient death (p>0.99). Average time to first BPAR was significantly longer in the r-ATG group (mean ± SD 151.4 ± 82.9 vs 53.6 ± 68.4 days, p<0.01). Kidney function at 12 months was similar between the two groups. CONCLUSION:Rabbit-ATG was associated with a lower frequency and delayed onset of BPAR compared with basiliximab in renal transplant recipients who received an ESW regimen.

journal_name

Pharmacotherapy

journal_title

Pharmacotherapy

authors

Martin ST,Roberts KL,Malek SK,Tullius SG,Vadivel N,De Serres S,Grafals M,Elsanjak A,Filkins BA,Chandraker A,Gabardi S

doi

10.1592/phco.31.6.566

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-06-01 00:00:00

pages

566-73

issue

6

eissn

0277-0008

issn

1875-9114

journal_volume

31

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