title: No difference in outcome between 314 nontransfused and 614 transfused cadaveric renal transplant recipients: the Scandinavian experience.
abstract: Pretransplant blood transfusions had no beneficial effect on the graft survival rate, the rejection frequency, or the quality of graft function in a case material consisting of 928 cadaveric kidney transplant recipients treated with 3 different CsA dose protocols. When younger recipients, PRA-negative recipients, or recipients receiving poorly HLA-matched kidneys were analyzed separately, there was still no transfusion effect. In the most recent series, the one-year graft survival rate was 84% among 164 nontransfused patients, and in 73 nontransfused patients under 50 years of age it was 90%. We conclude that with present day immunosuppressive therapy, based on CsA, there is no case for pretreatment blood transfusions. Indeed, this practice might place the renal transplant patient at a disadvantage.
authors.affiliation: Huddinge Hospital, Stockholm.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lundgren
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Groth
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Albrechtsen
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Brynger
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Flatmark
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Frödin
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Gugerli
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gäbel
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lindholm
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Persson
mesh_terms: D001803:Blood Transfusion; D002102:Cadaver; D003524:Cyclosporins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D003524:Cyclosporins