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NEPHROLOGY DIALYSIS TRANSPLANTATION
Volume 16, Issue 2, Pages 378-382Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/16.2.378
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hypophosphataemia; kidney; mycophenolate; rapamycin; transplantation
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Background. Impaired phosphate handling of the renal allograft is a common problem and of multifactorial origin. The aim of the study was to elucidate whether a rapamycin- or a mycophenolate-based immunosuppressive therapy aggravates the renal phosphate leak in kidney transplant recipients. Methods. Renal phosphate handling was determined in thirty-eight cadaveric allograft recipients, with good renal function at 8, 12, 20 and 28 weeks after transplantation. Nineteen patients (group 1) received triple immunosuppression with rapamycin, cyclosporine and prednisolone, nineteen other transplant recipients received mycophenolate mofetil, cyclosporine and prednisolone immunosuppression (group 2), and six healthy subjects (group 3) served as controls. After 12 weeks of stable graft function, group 1 patients were divided further into two subgroups. Tell patients were kept on their immunosuppressive regimen (group 1A). whereas the remaining nine randomly chosen subjects had their cyclosporine withdrawn: they were thus maintained on a dual immunosuppression regimen with prednisolone and a higher dosage of rapamycin (group 1B). Results. Renal phosphate reabsorption was significantly lower in group 1 at 8 and 12 weeks after transplantation as compared with groups 2 and 3. At 20 weeks after transplantation, patients with rapamycin-based immunosuppression (groups 1A and 1B) continued to exhibit hypophosphataemia and impaired renal phosphate handling. Group 1B had the lowest TmP/GFR compared with all groups. At 28 weeks, renal phosphate reabsorption and plasma phosphate levels were no longer different between patient groups and controls. Conclusion. These data suggest that rapamycin-based immunosuppression prolongs the phosphate leak of the allografted kidney, leading to low serum phosphate levels during the first weeks after transplantation.
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