Maternal versus paternal living kidney transplant donation is associated with lower rejection in young pediatric recipients: A Collaborative Transplant Study report

Autor: Géraldine L. Engels, Burkhard Tönshoff, Caner Süsal, Ingo Müller, Anne Kruchen, Jun Oh, Bernd Döhler
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Pediatric Transplantation. 26
ISSN: 1399-3046
1397-3142
DOI: 10.1111/petr.14154
Popis: BACKGROUND Approximately 1700 children per year with end-stage kidney disease undergo kidney transplantation in Europe and the United States of America; 30%-50% are living donor kidney transplantations. There may be immunological differences between paternal and maternal donors due to transplacental exchange of cells between the mother and fetus during pregnancy leading to microchimerism. We investigated whether the outcome of living-related kidney transplantation in young children is different after maternal compared with paternal organ donation. METHODS Using the international Collaborative Transplant Study (CTS) database, we analyzed epidemiological data of 7247 children and adolescents aged
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