• Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. · Mar 2012

    Clinical relevance of HLA donor-specific antibodies detected by single antigen assay in kidney transplantation.

    • José Luis Caro-Oleas, María Francisca González-Escribano, Francisco Manuel González-Roncero, María José Acevedo-Calado, Virginia Cabello-Chaves, Miguel Ángel Gentil-Govantes, and Antonio Núñez-Roldán.
    • Servicio de Inmunología, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Instituto de Biomedicina (IBIS), Seville, Spain.
    • Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2012 Mar 1; 27 (3): 1231-8.

    BackgroundClinical relevance of donor-specific antibodies (DSAs) detected by a single antigen Luminex virtual crossmatch in pre-transplant serum samples from patients with a negative cytotoxicity-dependent complement crossmatch is controversial. The aim of this study was to analyse the influence of a pre-transplant positive virtual crossmatch in the outcome of kidney transplantation.MethodsA total of 892 patients who received a graft from deceased donors after a negative cytotoxicity crossmatch were included. Presence of anti-human leucocyte antigen (HLA) antibodies was investigated using a Luminex screening assay and anti-HLA specificities were assigned performing a Luminex single antigen assay.ResultsGraft survival was significantly worse among patients with anti-HLA DSA compared to both patients with anti-HLA with no DSA (P = 0.001) and patients without HLA antibodies (P < 0.001) using a log-rank test. No graft survival differences between anti-HLA with no DSA and no HLA antibodies patient groups were observed (P = 0.595). Influence of both anti-Class I and anti-Class II DSA was detected (P < 0.0001 in both cases). When the fluorescence values were stratified in four groups, no significant differences in graft survival were observed among the groups with fluorescence levels >1500 (global P > 0.05).ConclusionsThe presence of preformed HLA DSA in transplanted patients with a negative cytotoxicity crossmatch is associated with a lower allograft survival. The detection of anti-HLA with no DSA has no influence in the graft outcome. Finally, there were no demonstrable effects of mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) values >1500 on graft survival.

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