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Kidney allografts with biopsy features of chronic mixed rejection reflect poorer survival than those with pure chronic antibody-mediated rejection. D. Dobi, Zs . Bodó, É. Kemény, K. Boda a , P. Szenohradszky b , E. Szederkényi b , B. Iványi
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Kidney allografts with biopsy features of chronic mixed rejection reflect poorer survival than those with pure chronic antibody-mediated rejection D. Dobi, Zs. Bodó, É. Kemény, K. Bodaa, P. Szenohradszkyb, E. Szederkényib, B. Iványi Departments of Pathology, Medical Physics and InformaticsaandSurgeryb University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Introduction In late dysfunctional kidney allograft biopsies three rejection phenotypes can be observed: • chronic antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) • acute T-cell-mediated rejection (TMR) • chronic active TMR
Chronic AMR: transplant glomerulopathy and/or transplant capillaropathy cg ptcml
Acute TMR: interstitialinfiltrates and tubulitis (interstitialrejection, ISR) withorwithoutintimalarteritis
Frequency: chronic AMR > acute TMR; chronicactiveTMR is exceptional • Chronic AMR and TMR mayconcur, termed chronic mixed rejection (CMR)
Objectives Toanalyze • thehistologicalpatterns of chronic mixed rejection (CMR) • theclinicopathologicalrelevance of thedifferentpatternsof CMR
Material and methods • From 2001 to 2011, 61 biopsies displayed thehistologicalfeatures of chronic AMR (cg and/orptcml± C4d-positivity) • Luminexdatawerenotavaible • Re-evaluationaccordingtotheBanffscheme (v, g, i, t, ptc, cg, ci,ct, ah) plus • Scoring of chronicarterialchanges: mononuclearsinintimalfibrosis (cvmo), intimalfibrosis (cvIF), intimalfibroelastosis (cvIFE); and tubular HLA-DR and ptcml
Staining of chronic active arteritis (cvmo) cases with CD3 and CD68 in adjacent sections • Two groups for clinicopathological analysis: purely CAMR vs CMR • Statistics: Spearman’s correlation, hierarchical cluster analysis, Kaplan-Meier estimator, Cox regression
CD3 Features of chronicactivearteritis Severeluminalnarrowing (medianscore 3), mononuclearsscatteredthroughoutthefibroticintima, T-cellpredominance CD68 PAS
Significant (p<0.05) and positiveSpearmancorrelationcoefficientsbetweenBanffscoresandchronicarterialchanges
Hierarchicalclusteranalysis cvIF cvmo cvIFE
Mean graft survival in purely CAMR and CMR groups 50vs22months Purely CAMR CMR p=0.011
MultivariableCoxregression of morphologicalvariables cvmo ptc HLA-DR t i g C4d cvIF cg ptcml CNI-tox. ct ci ah cvIFE
Discussion • CMR wasfrequentinour series (43%) • Chronic active arteritis appeared to beT-cell-related • T-cellpredominancein 14/16 cases • Clusteredwith TMR lesions C. Lefaucheur et al. Antibody-mediatedvascularrejection of kidneyallografts: a population-basedstudy. Lancet 2013; 381: 313-319.
CMR wascharacterizedbypoorerallograftsurvival and more reducedallograftfunctionthanpurelychronic AMR ifchronicactivearteritiswas part of the TMR component • The immunohistochemical profiling of chronicactivearteritis is recommended