Clinical and pathological correlations of C4d immunostaining and its influence on the outcome of kidney transplant recipients.
| Autor: | Carpio VN; Post Graduate Medical Sciences Program of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul., Rech C, Eickhoff EI, Pegas KL, Edelweiss MI, Gonçalves LF, Manfro RC, Veronese FV |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Jornal brasileiro de nefrologia [J Bras Nefrol] 2011 Jul-Sep; Vol. 33 (3), pp. 329-37. |
| DOI: | 10.1590/s0101-28002011000300009 |
| Abstrakt: | Introduction: C4d is a marker of antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) in kidney allografts, although cellular rejection also have C4d deposits. Objective: To correlate C4d expression with clinico-pathological parameters and graft outcomes at three years. Methods: One hundred forty six renal transplantation recipients with graft biopsies by indication were included. C4d staining was performed by paraffin-immunohistochemistry. Graft function and survival were measured, and predictive variables of the outcome were determined by multivariate Cox regression. Results: C4d staining was detected in 48 (31%) biopsies, of which 23 (14.7%) had diffuse and 25 (16%) focal distribution. Pre-transplantation panel reactive antibodies (%PRA) class I and II were significantly higher in C4d positive patients as compared to those C4d negative. Both glomerulitis and pericapillaritis were associated to C4d (p = 0.002 and p < 0.001, respectively). The presence of C4d in biopsies diagnosed as no rejection (NR), acute cellular rejection (ACR) or interstitial fibrosis/ tubular atrophy (IF/TA) did not impact graft function or survival. Compared to NR, ACR and IF/TA C4d⁻, patients with ABMR C4d⁺ had the worst graft survival over 3 years (p = 0.034), but there was no difference between ABMR versus NR, ACR and IF/TA that were C4d positive (p = 0.10). In Cox regression, graft function at biopsy and high %PRA levels were predictors of graft loss. Conclusions: This study confirmed that C4d staining in kidney graft biopsies is a clinically useful marker of ABMR, with well defined clinical and pathological correlations. The impact of C4d deposition in other histologic diagnoses deserves further investigation. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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