title: Urine fibrin degradation products in detection and management of acute and chronic renal transplant rejection.
abstract: Detection of rejection by serial determinations of urine FDP using the latex agglutination slide test proved to be a reliable, simple and inexpensive method. In the absence of infection, clinical and biochemical acute rejection was preceded by a two-titer rise in excretion of urine FDP in 80% of 26 patients studied. It was not useful in predicting rejection in 44 stable long-term allograft recipients, although persistent elevation of urine FDP after anti-rejection therapy in these patients or those in the immediate post-transplant period implies ongoing rejection. Maintenance immunosuppression should be continued in these patients, but repeated high-dose steroid therapy should be limited because of their poor-term prognosis. Persistent increase in urine FDP may allow selection of those patients who would benefit from a trial of anticoagulant or antiplatelet therapy.
mesh_terms: D003404:Creatinine / Q000097:blood; D005338:Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products / Q000652:urine*; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006801:Humans; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D011507:Proteinuria; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous
chemical_list: D005338:Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products; D003404:Creatinine