Peripheral blood allogeneic microchimerism in lung and cardiac allograft recipients.
Conference Paper
We have been investigating two parameters, donor antigen-specific hyporeactivity and peripheral blood allogeneic microchimerism, to determine whether these parameters will predict a chronic rejection-free state and which recipients may be candidates for steroid withdrawal. We have identified donor antigen-specific hyporeactivity for 33% (16/48) of lung and 23% (11/47) of heart recipients. For both organ groups, the hyporeactive subgroup experienced a lower incidence of chronic rejection. The probability of donor antigen-specific hyporeactivity predicting a chronic rejection-free state is 100% for lung and 91% for heart recipients. We have identified peripheral blood allogeneic microchimerism for 77% (20/26) of lung and 36% (9/25) of heart recipients tested at 12-18 months posttransplant. Donor antigen-specific hyporeactivity correlates with a critical level of donor cells in lung recipients; the probability of high peripheral blood allogeneic microchimerism levels predicting a chronic rejection-free state in lung recipients is 100%. The results in heart recipients are not as clear with a short-, but not long-term, trend of higher chimerism levels correlating with the development of donor antigen-specific hyporeactivity. These results illustrate the usefulness of immmune parameters to predict long-term graft outcome in an organ-specific manner.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Reinsmoen, NL; Jackson, A; Hertz, M; Savik, K; Kubo, S; Ormaza, S; Miller, L; McSherry, C
Published Date
- August 1999
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 66 / 2
Start / End Page
- 306 - 309
PubMed ID
- 10449173
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0741-5400
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1002/jlb.66.2.306
Conference Location
- United States