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Ali İnal1, Dilaver Taş, Feza Yarbuğ Karakayalı
1From the Immunology Department, Baskent University Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey.
Objectives:
The presence of donor-specific antibodies against HLA before kidney transplant has been variably associated with decreased long-term graft survival. Data on the association between pretransplant donor-specific antibodies and rejection and cause of graft failure in recipients of donor kidneys are scarce.
Materials And Methods:
For this study of HLA antibody levels, we analyzed serum samples from 76 patients (48 women and 28 men) who were prepared for kidney transplant at the Baskent University İstanbul Hospital between 2017 and 2022. Levels were determined by using Lifecodes panel reactive antibody class I and II identification kits and Lifecodes LSA class I and II identification kits by the Luminex assay method.
Results:
Multiple antigen tests showed more than 70% sensitization detected against both class I and class II antigens in our patient group. When some samples were reevaluated with the single-antigen bead method, desensitization values were shown to be considerably reduced compared with values from multiple antigen methods.
Conclusions:
The single-antigen-coated bead method can be useful in determining the risk of donor-specific antibodies in highly sensitized patients.
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