Currency of Receipt of Immunosuppressive Agents and Other Risk Factors for Lip Cancer Following Renal Transplantation

Leeuwen, Marina T. van; Grulich, AE; Webster, A. J. F.; McDonald, Stephanie; McCredie, Margaret; Stewart, John H.; Amin, Jasim; Kaldor, John; Chapman, J. R.; Vajdic, Claire M.

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“…To reduce immunosuppressive medications in KTRs diagnosed with cancer is a difficult decision. There is evidence that the risk of de novo cancer returns to pretransplant levels after graft failure (676–679), suggesting that reducing immunosuppressive medication may be warranted. Experimental studies have demonstrated the specific capacity of CNIs to increase metastasis (680).…”

Section: Rationalementioning

confidence: 99%

Special Issue: KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for the Care of Kidney Transplant Recipients

Eckardt¹,

Kasiske²,

Zeier³

2009

American Journal of Transplantation

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Journal compilation © 2009 The American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons doi: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2009.02834.x S2 American Journal of Transplantation 2009; 9 (Suppl 3): S2-S2Since the first successful kidney transplantation in 1954 It is our hope that this document will serve several useful purposes. Our primary goal is to improve patient care. We hope to accomplish this in the short term by helping clinicians know and better understand the evidence (or lack of evidence) that determines current practice. By making this guideline broadly applicable, our purpose is to also encourage and enable the establishment and development of transplant programs worldwide. Finally, by providing comprehensive evidence-based recommendations, this guideline will also help define areas where evidence is lacking and research is needed. Helping to define a research agenda is an often neglected, but very important function of clinical practice guideline development.We used the GRADE system to rate the strength of evidence and the strength of recommendations. In all, there were only 4 (2%) recommendations in this guideline for which the overall quality of evidence was graded 'A,' whereas 27 (13.6%) were graded 'B,' 77 (38.9%) were graded 'C,' and 90 (45.5%) ' and 148 (74.7%) graded '2.' There were 3 (1.5%) recommendations graded '1A,' 16 (8.1%) were '1B,' 18 (9.1%) were '1C, ' and 13 (6.6%) were '1D.' There was 1 (0.5%) graded '2A,' 11 (5.6%) were '2B,' 59 (29.8%) were '2C, ' and 77 (38.9%) BackgroundExcept perhaps for transplantation between identical twins, all kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) need immunosuppressive medications to prevent rejection. Induction therapy is treatment with a biologic agent, either a lymphocyte-depleting agent or an interleukin 2 receptor antagonist (IL2-RA), begun before, at the time of, or immediately after transplantation. The purpose of induction therapy is to deplete or modulate T-cell responses at the time of antigen presentation. Induction therapy is intended to improve the efficacy of immunosuppression by reducing acute rejection, or by allowing a reduction of other components of the regimen, such as calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs) or corticosteroids. Available lymphocytedepleting agents include antithymocyte globulin (ATG), antilymphocyte globulin (ALG) and monomurab-CD3. Basiliximab and daclizumab, the two IL2-RAs that are currently available in many parts of the world, bind the CD25 antigen (interleukin-2 [IL2] receptor a-chain) at the surface of activated T-lymphocytes and thereby competitively inhibit IL2-mediated lymphocyte activation, a crucial phase in cellular immune response of allograft rejection. Rationale• There is high-quality evidence that the benefits of IL2-RA vs. no IL2-RA (or placebo) outweigh harm in a broad range of KTRs with variable immunological risk and concomitant immunosuppressive medication regimens.• There is moderate-quality evidence that a lymphocytedepleting agent vs. no lymphocyte-depleting a...

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Section: Rationalementioning

confidence: 99%