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ArticleTransplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation2022

Dynamic Behaviour of Donor Specific Antibodies in the Early Period Following HLA Incompatible Kidney Transplantation.

Mason Phillpott, Sunil Daga, Rob Higgins, David Lowe, Nithya Krishnan, Daniel Zehnder, David Briggs, Natalia Khovanova

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Article in Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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  6. Early Donor-Specific HLA Antibodies Detected by Screening in the First Month Posttransplant and Kidney Graft Outcomes.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2025
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Mason PhillpottSchool of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
Sunil DagaSt James's University Hospital, LTHT NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom.
Rob HigginsWarwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
David LoweHistocompatibility and Immunogenetics, NHS Blood and Transplant, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Nithya KrishnanUniversity Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom.
Daniel ZehnderWarwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
David BriggsHistocompatibility and Immunogenetics, NHS Blood and Transplant, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Natalia KhovanovaSchool of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In HLA-incompatible kidney transplantation, monitoring donor-specific antibodies (DSA) plays a crucial role in providing appropriate treatment and increases kidney survival times. This work aimed to determine if early post-transplant DSA dynamics inform graft outcome over and above other predictive factors. Eighty-eight cases were classified by unsupervised machine learning into five distinct DSA response groups: no response, fast modulation, slow modulation, rise to sustained and sustained. Fast modulation dynamics gave an 80% rate for early acute rejection, whereas the sustained group was associated with the lowest rejection rates (19%). In complete contrast, the five-year graft failure was lowest in the modulation groups (4-7%) and highest in the sustained groups (25-31%). Multivariable analysis showed that a higher pre-treatment DSA level, male gender and absence of early acute rejection were strongly associated with a sustained DSA response. The modulation group had excellent five-year outcomes despite higher rates of early rejection episodes. This work further develops an understanding of post-transplant DSA dynamics and their influence on graft survival following HLA-incompatible kidney transplantation.

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Kidney TransplantationAntibodiesGraft RejectionGraft SurvivalHLA AntigensHumansIsoantibodiesMaleRetrospective StudiesTissue DonorsAntibodiesHLA AntigensIsoantibodies5 years graft failureantibody dynamicsclusteringdonor specific antibodydynamic patternskidney transplantation

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PMCPMC9062976

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