title: Kidney transplantation achievements in Mongolia.
abstract: Between August 2006 and August 2009, 33 patients with end-stage renal disease were the recipients of kidney transplantations. The donors were living related 29 operations with 4 recipients of 2 deceased donors following accidents with cardiac arrest controlled after permission by the next of kin. We used standard techniques for the donor and recipient operations. All recipients were prescribed 1 dose of alemtuzumab (Campath 1 H 20-30 mg), peroperatively preceded by 500 mg methylprednisolone. In 2 recipients, a second infusion of Campath 1 was administered on postoperative day 2. On postoperative day 3, we prescribed monotherapy with either cyclosporine (n=29) at a starting dose of 7 mg/kg body weight or tacrolimus (n=6) at a starting dose of 0.7 mg/kg body weight. With the exception of patients treated for an acute rejection episode, no patient received steroid therapy. There were 7 acute rejection episodes, which were treated with 3 consecutive daily doses of methylprednisolone (250 mg). The 1-year patient survival was 94% and 2-year graft survival, 84.8%. We concluded that the use of Campath 1 together with a non-steroid maintenance immunosuppressive regimen provided acceptable graft and patient survival in our developing country.
authors.affiliation: National Central Hospital, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jambaljav
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nyamsuren
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Byambadash
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ganbold
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000074323:Alemtuzumab; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000627:therapeutic use; D061067:Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized; D000912:Antibodies, Neoplasm / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002102:Cadaver; D016572:Cyclosporine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000276:immunology / Q000401:mortality / Q000502:physiology*; D019520:Living Donors; D008297:Male; D008775:Methylprednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008875:Middle Aged; D008986:Mongolia; D035781:Siblings; D016559:Tacrolimus / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014019:Tissue Donors; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D061067:Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized; D000912:Antibodies, Neoplasm; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents; D000074323:Alemtuzumab; D016572:Cyclosporine; D016559:Tacrolimus; D008775:Methylprednisolone