title: Successful kidney and liver transplantation from a donor with immune thrombocytopenia.
abstract: Antibodies directed against platelet-surface antigen cause immune thrombocytopenia. Transplantation from a donor with immune thrombocytopenia has rarely been reported in the literature and never with a platelet count of 1 × 10(9)/L. We report one liver transplant recipient and one kidney transplant recipient who received organs from a donor with immune thrombocytopenia dying from intracranial hemorrhage. The kidney recipient showed no evidence of thrombocytopenia after transplantation. However, in the liver recipient, the platelet count nadired at 4 × 10(9)/L and normalized within 3 months. Transplantation of a liver from a donor suffering from immune thrombocytopenia must be considered with great caution. Other organs are suitable for transplantation; however, recipients of these organs must be followed carefully for evidence of immune thrombocytopenia and treatment offered accordingly.
authors.affiliation: Division of Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kaestner
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Kutsogiannis
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D013921:Thrombocytopenia / Q000276:immunology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome