THE EFFECTS OF A MAINTENANCE IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE PROTOCOL AFTER RENAL TRANSPLANTATION ON INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS COMPARING CYCLOSPORINE/PREDNISONE CYCLOSPORINE/AZATHIOPRINEPREDNISONE AND CONVERSION

Autor: DORP, W. T. VAN, Es, L. A. VAN, THOMPSON, J., WOUDE, F. J. VAN DER
Zdroj: Transplantation; January 1991, Vol. 51 Issue: 1 p193-197, 5p
Abstrakt: Infectious complications of either high-dose (16 mg/kg/day) or low-dose (9 mg/kg/day) cyclosporine in combination with azathioprine (Aza) (1 mg/kg/day) were studied in 128 renal transplant patients who also received low-dose prednisone (P). Three months after transplantation all patients were again randomly assigned to either continuation with CsA/P or conversion to Aza/P. During the first 3 months the number of infections was significantly lower in the CsA/P treatment than in the CsA/Aza/P group. In both groups the number of infections doubled after rejection treatment. The frequence of symptomatic CMV disease did not differ between the 2 groups. Three months after transplantation, the patient group assigned to Aza/P had a small but not significant increase of minor infections when compared with the patients who continued with CsA/P. The number of major infections did not differ between these two groups.
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