niertransplantatie rejection of kidney allograft
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Adult patients receiving a deceased or living kidney transplant in the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands and: - Group 1: o Historical PRA (panel reactive antibodies) > 6% and/ or: o HLA MM (human leucocyte antigen mismatches) >=4 on A, B and DR loci - Group 2: o Recipients of an ABO-incompatible kidney graft. Patients have to give written informed consent to participate in the study.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - ABO-compatible HLA identical living-related transplant recipients. - Patients unable to give written informed consent.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
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| The primary objective for this study is to determine the prognostic characteristics for BPAR in the first 3 months after transplantation, as assessed in the lymphocyte composition of the lymph node in immunologically high-risk kidney transplantation. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
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| Secondary objectives of the study are: - to capture global composition of lymph node and blood leukocyte subsets [20]. - to compare the immunological ageing profile of T cells in the peripheral blood to the T cells derived from the lymph node. - to assess whether pre-transplant frequencies of lymph node derived TFH, T and B cells predict BPAR. - to assess differences in lymphocyte composition of lymph nodes in alemtuzumab treated versus untreated patients both in single cell suspension and within the tissue. (ABO-incompatible kidney transplant recipients receive alemtuzumab induction therapy three weeks before transplantation). | — |
Countries
Netherlands