Kaposi’s sarcoma following living donor kidney transplantation: review of 7,939 recipients

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 41 - Trang 679-685 - 2008
Behzad Einollahi1, Mahboob Lessan-Pezeshki2, Mohammad Hossein Nourbala1, Naser Simforoosh3, Vahid Pourfarziani1, Eghlim Nemati1, Mohsen Nafar3, Abbas Basiri3, Fatemeh Pour-Reza-Gholi3, Ahmad Firoozan3, Mohammad Hassan Ghadiani1, Khadijeh Makhdoomi4, Ali Ghafari4, Pedram Ahmadpour3, Farshid Oliaei5, Mohammad Reza Ardalan6, Atieh Makhlogh7, Hamid Reza Samimagham8, Jalal Azmandian9
1Nephrology Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2Nephrology Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
3Kidney Transplant Department, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4Nephrology Department, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
5Nephrology Department, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
6Nephrology Department Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
7Nephrology Department, Sari University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
8Nephrology Department, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Hormozgan, Iran
9Nephrology Department, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Tóm tắt

Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) is one of the most common tumors to occur in kidney recipients, especially in the Middle East countries. Limited data with adequate sample size exist about the development of KS in living kidney recipients. Therefore, we made a plan for a multicenter study, accounting for up to 36% (n = 7,939) of all kidney transplantation in Iran, to determine the incidence of KS after kidney transplantation between 1984 and 2007. Fifty-five (0.69%) recipients who developed KS after kidney transplantation were retrospectively evaluated with a median follow-up of 24 (1–180) months. KS occurred more often in older age when compared to patients without KS (49 ± 12 vs. 38 ± 15 years, P = 0.000). KS was frequently found during the first 2 years after transplantation (72.7%). Skin involvement was universal. Furthermore, overall mortality rate was 18%, and it was higher in patients with visceral involvement compared to those with mucocutaneous lesions (P = 0.01). However, KS had no adverse affect on patient and graft survival rates compared to those without KS. Forty-four patients with limited mucocutaneous disease and four with visceral disease responded to withdrawal or reduction of immunosuppression with or without other treatment modalities. Renal function was preserved when immunosuppression was reduced instead of withdrawn in patients with and without visceral involvement (P = 0.001 and 0.008, respectively). The high incidence of KS in this large population studied, as compared to that reported in other transplant patient groups, suggests that genetic predisposition may play a pathogenetic role.

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