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ArticleSultan Qaboos University medical journal2016

Successful Salvage Treatment of Resistant Acute Antibody-Mediated Kidney Transplant Rejection with Eculizumab.

Saif A Khan, Dawood Al-Riyami, Yasser W Al-Mula Abed, Saja Mohammed, Marwa Al-Riyami, Nabil M Al-Lawati

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Article in Sultan Qaboos University medical journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Saif A KhanDepartment of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
Dawood Al-RiyamiDepartment of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
Yasser W Al-Mula AbedDepartment of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
Saja MohammedDepartment of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
Marwa Al-RiyamiDepartment of Pathology, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
Nabil M Al-LawatiDepartment of Medicine, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
Sultan Qaboos University Hospital · OMSultan Qaboos University · OM

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) jeopardises short- and long-term transplant survival and remains a challenge in the field of organ transplantation. We report the first use of the anticomplement agent eculizumab in Oman in the treatment of a 61-year-old female patient with ABMR following a living unrelated kidney transplant. The patient was admitted to the Sultan Qaboos University Hospital in Muscat, Oman, in 2013 on the eighth day post-transplantation with serum creatinine (Cr) levels of 400 µmol/L which continued to rise, necessitating haemodialysis. A biopsy indicated ABMR with acute cellular rejection. No improvement was observed following standard ABMR treatment and she continued to require dialysis. Five doses of eculizumab were administered over six weeks with a subsequent dramatic improvement in renal function. The patient became dialysis-free with serum Cr levels of 119 µmol/L within four months. This case report indicates that eculizumab is a promising agent in the treatment of ABMR.

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Case ReportComplement ActivationEculizumabKidney TransplantationOmanTransplantation Rejection

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PMID27606122
PMCPMC4996305
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