title: Renal transplantation at Oregon Health and Science University: recent results and protocols.
abstract: Renal transplants have been performed at the University Hospital, Portland, OR since 1959. In the 5-year period between January 1997 and December 2001, 736 kidney-only transplants were performed at our institution. Living donor transplants comprise an increasing proportion of the transplants performed. Our patient and graft survival rates, both short- and long-term reflect the close collaboration between the transplantation medicine and transplantation surgery faculties, and the excellent support from nurse-coordinators, histocompatibility laboratory specialists and the organ procurement organization. Since September 2001, we have used a risk-based immunosuppression algorithm. The incidence of acute rejection within the first 3 months following transplantation ranged from 7-18% in the different risk groups. We have incorporated surveillance renal allograft biopsies into our standard of care and biopsies are performed at 3 months and one year after transplantation. The incidence of subclinical rejection was 15% on the 3-month surveillance biopsies and 4% on the one-year biopsies. The majority of these rejection episodes were CCTT type I acute rejection, which responded to treatment with pulse steroids. Since 1991, we have been transplanting kidneys from blood group A2 donors into blood group B or O recipients. Graft survival is similar to that in patients receiving an ABO compatible transplant. We have recently adopted the use of intravenous immune globulin to abrogate a positive crossmatch and allow transplantation of a kidney from a living donor. Six patients have been successfully transplanted using this protocol. In an effort to speed up the work-up of recipients waiting for a deceased donor kidney transplant, we have implemented a computer-driven algorithm. By generating a list of patients who should be crossmatched, and by automating generation of work sheets and reports, this computer-driven program has expedited deceased donor workups.
authors.affiliation: Renal Transplant Program, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
authors.forename: Muralikrishna S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Golconda
authors.forename: Angelo M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: de Mattos
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Prather
authors.forename: Ali J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Olyaei
authors.forename: Lori
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fletcher
authors.forename: Mary Ann
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Head
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wetzsteon
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Barry
authors.forename: Douglas J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Norman
mesh_terms: D000017:ABO Blood-Group System; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D001787:Blood Group Incompatibility; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003710:Demography; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D016756:Immunoglobulins, Intravenous / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy / Q000379:methods; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000276:immunology / Q000379:methods*; D019520:Living Donors; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008875:Middle Aged; D009922:Oregon; D011159:Population Surveillance; D014019:Tissue Donors; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D000017:ABO Blood-Group System; D016756:Immunoglobulins, Intravenous