title: Eighteen-year follow-up of a retrospective study of HLA antibody on kidney graft survival.
abstract: An increasing number of studies have demonstrated adverse graft survival in patients who have anti-HLA antibodies, whether preformed or developed posttransplantation. This retrospective study used Lambda antigen tray-mixed (LAT-M) screening and Luminex HLA class I and II specificity assay to re-examine the impact of pretransplantation HLA antibody on long-term graft survival. In this study, pretransplantation sera from 288 renal patients were tested using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method, LAT-M. Among the 234 of the patients who did not have pretransplantation antibodies, 85% enjoyed 5-year functional graft survival, 76% 10-year functional graft survival, and 56% 15-year functional graft survival. The corresponding functional graft survival for the 54 patients who tested HLA antibody-positive was 65%, 53%, and 28%, respectively (P = .0021).
authors.affiliation: Medical College, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: P-C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ozawa
authors.forename: C-J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Hung
authors.forename: Y-J
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: S-S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: T-C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Chou
mesh_terms: D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006085:Graft Survival / Q000276:immunology*; D006680:HLA Antigens / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007518:Isoantibodies / Q000097:blood*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000276:immunology* / Q000401:mortality; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016019:Survival Analysis; D017741:Survivors; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D006680:HLA Antigens; D007518:Isoantibodies