Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) B-27 and older age are associated with augmented cyclosporine blood bioavailability in renal allograft recipients: an attempt toward individualization of immunosuppression.
BACKGROUND
Therapeutic drug monitoring of cyclosporine (CsA) blood values in renal transplant recipients is of extreme importance; hence, finding contributing factors in this issue is relevant. In this study, we aimed to evaluate potential associations of some characteristics of the recipients including their human leukocyte antigen haplotypes with their drug bioavailability.


METHODS
616 patients who had a valid HLA typing result concomitant with other demographic data in our local data registry were consecutively selected. We extracted their HLA typing, age, gender, weight, cause of renal failure, first measured CsA trough level (C0) and concomitantly measured creatinine, CsA administered dosage, time duration from transplantation, routine laboratory test results, panel reactive antibodies percentage, and immunosuppression type. Bivariate and multivariate linear regressions were employed to evaluate associations of these factors with blood C0 values.


RESULTS
64.5% of patients were male. Mean age at transplantation was 40.7+/-15.8. Mean first measured C0 was 271+/-178 ng/ml. Analysis showed that the only factors which had independent association with C0 were age at transplantation, dose/weight ratio and HLA-B27.


CONCLUSIONS
genetic factors as well as age of patients are two founded factors in this study which are recommended to be considered in monitoring drug administration in organ transplant recipients.
Nephrology & Urology Research Center (NURC), Tehran, Iran. nemati203@gmail.com
Eghlim
E
Nemati
Saeed
S
Taheri
Vahid
V
Pourfarziani
Behzad
B
Einollahi
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001682:Biological Availability; D015331:Cohort Studies; D016572:Cyclosporine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*; D005260:Female; D015796:HLA-B27 Antigen; D006801:Humans; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*; D007492:Iran; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000097:blood* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors
D015796:HLA-B27 Antigen; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents; D016572:Cyclosporine