| Autor: |
Kälble, Florian, Schaier, Matthias, Schäfer, Sebastian, Süsal, Caner, Zeier, Martin, Sommerer, Claudia, Morath, Christian |
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Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy; May 2017, Vol. 18 Issue: 8 p799-807, 9p |
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ABSTRACTIntroduction: The introduction of calcineurin inhibitors (CNI) has greatly improved graft survival in the past three decades. However, long-term graft survival is still limited due to chronic allograft injury and side-effects of immunosuppressive medication.Areas covered: The present overview gives an update on pharmacotherapeutic strategies after kidney transplantation. The main focus is on CNI-sparing regimens using co-stimulatory blockade and on new substances on the horizone.Expert opinion: CNI sparing regimens are well-established. Complete CNI avoidance after kidney transplantation was often associated with impaired graft survival until the approval of the co-stimulation blocker belatacept for de novoimmunosuppression after kidney transplantation. Concerns still exist with respect to severe T-cell-mediated rejection episodes in the early phase after transplantation. Thus, a triple drug regimen with CNI, mycophenolic acid and steroids still represents the gold-standard of immunosuppressive therapy. Alternative substances expand the possibilities of tailoring individual immunosuppression for different indications such as biopsy-proven CNI toxicity, polyoma virus BK nephropathy or CNI-triggered thrombotic microangiopathy. However, a change of the immunosuppressive therapy must always be balanced against each patient´s individual immunological risk in order to address the importance of chronic antibody-mediated rejection driven by donor specific antibodies (DSA). |
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