Limitations of C2 monitoring in renal transplant recipients
| Autor: | Gunilla Einecke, Lutz Fritsche, Hans-H. Neumayer, Petra Glander, Markus Giessing, Manuela Schütz, Klemens Budde, Ingrid Mai |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Graft Rejection Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Basiliximab medicine.medical_treatment Urology Nephrotoxicity Predictive Value of Tests Humans Medicine Kidney transplantation Transplantation Dose-Response Relationship Drug business.industry Graft Survival Middle Aged medicine.disease Ciclosporin Kidney Transplantation Surgery Nephrology Toxicity Cyclosporine Female Kidney Diseases Hemodialysis Drug Monitoring business Immunosuppressive Agents Kidney disease medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 20:1463-1470 |
| ISSN: | 1460-2385 0931-0509 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/ndt/gfh819 |
| Popis: | Recent developments have proposed the cyclosporin (CsA) concentration at 2 h post-dose (C(2)) as the best single time-point predictor of the extent of CsA exposure and as the optimal basis for monitoring immunosuppressive therapy in renal transplant patients. The present study sought to validate the cornerstones of the current concept of C(2) monitoring.We assessed the predictive value, dose proportionality and intrapatient variability of C(2) levels in 41 de novo renal transplant recipients treated with CsA microemulsion, steroids, mycophenolate sodium and basiliximab.Patients with rejection and patients with CsA nephrotoxicity had lower C(2) (P = NS) and absorption (P0.05 for toxicity), while C(0) did not show any significant difference. Receiver operating characteristic analysis did not detect discriminative C(2) values as a predictor of rejection or toxicity. In a substantial number of patients (29%) we observed poor and/or slow absorption, with C(0)300 ng/ml and C(2) levels800 ng/ml during the first month and a high rate of complications in these patients (18% rejection, 64% toxicity). Absorption increased over the first month post-transplant. Analysis of dose changes indicated that C(2) levels are not dose-proportional. Intrapatient variability of C(2) was as high as that of C(0).C(2) levels do not predict rejection or toxicity. C(2) monitoring alone does not detect toxicity in poor and/or slow absorbers, who constitute a significant proportion of patients. Changes in absorption over time, high intrapatient variability and lack of dose proportionality constitute further limitations of the C(2) monitoring concept in the early post-transplant phase. |
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