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Deceased-Donor Acute Kidney Injury and BK Polyomavirus in Kidney Transplant Recipients
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Deceased-Donor Acute Kidney Injury and BK Polyomavirus in Kidney Transplant Recipients

Isaac E Hall, Peter Philip Reese, Sherry G Mansour, Sumit Mohan, Yaqi Jia, Heather R Thiessen-Philbrook, Daniel C Brennan, Mona D Doshi, Thangamani Muthukumar, Enver Akalin, …
Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology, v 16(5), pp 765-775
08 May 2021
PMID: 33692117
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https://cjasn.asnjournals.org/content/clinjasn/16/5/765.full.pdfView
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https://doi.org/10.2215/CJN.18101120View
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Abstract

Acute Kidney Injury Adult Aged BK Virus Cadaver Female Humans Kidney Transplantation Male Middle Aged Polyomavirus Infections - epidemiology Polyomavirus Infections - etiology Postoperative Complications - epidemiology Postoperative Complications - etiology Prospective Studies Tissue and Organ Procurement Tumor Virus Infections - epidemiology Tumor Virus Infections - etiology
BK polyomavirus (BKV) infection commonly complicates kidney transplantation, contributing to morbidity and allograft failure. The virus is often donor-derived and influenced by ischemia-reperfusion processes and disruption of structural allograft integrity. We hypothesized that deceased-donor AKI associates with BKV infection in recipients. We studied 1025 kidney recipients from 801 deceased donors transplanted between 2010 and 2013, at 13 academic centers. We fitted Cox proportional-hazards models for BKV DNAemia (detectable in recipient blood by clinical PCR testing) within 1 year post-transplantation, adjusting for donor AKI and other donor- and recipient-related factors. We validated findings from this prospective cohort with analyses for graft failure attributed to BKV within the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) database. The multicenter cohort mean kidney donor profile index was 49±27%, and 26% of donors had AKI. Mean recipient age was 54±13 years, and 25% developed BKV DNAemia. Donor AKI was associated with lower risk for BKV DNAemia (adjusted hazard ratio, 0.53; 95% confidence interval, 0.36 to 0.79). In the OPTN database, 22,537 (25%) patients received donor AKI kidneys, and 272 (0.3%) developed graft failure from BKV. The adjusted hazard ratio for the outcome with donor AKI was 0.7 (95% confidence interval, 0.52 to 0.95). In a well-characterized, multicenter cohort, contrary to our hypothesis, deceased-donor AKI independently associated with lower risk for BKV DNAemia. Within the OPTN database, donor AKI was also associated with lower risk for graft failure attributed to BKV. This article contains a podcast at https://www.asn-online.org/media/podcast/CJASN/2021_03_10_CJN18101120_final.mp3.

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