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Increased but stable isoagglutinin titers in hemodialysis patients

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Background

Prior to an ABO incompatible kidney transplantation it is important to know the recipient’s pre-transplantation anti-A and/or anti-B (isoagglutinin) titer. This study determined if pre-transplantation isoagglutinin titers remained stable, over a period of 1 year, among hemodialysis patients.

Method

Blood was collected four times, every 3 months from 54 hemodialysis patients (hemodialysed trice per week ≥ 6 months), and 56 healthy volunteers. Measurement of anti-A and anti-B (IgM and IgG) titers were performed on an automated solid phase analyzer. The titers were converted to log2 titer steps (e.g., titer 32 = titer step 5).

Results

Within blood group O, mean IgG anti-A and anti-B titers were significantly higher in the hemodialysis patients (n = 22, mean titer step: anti-A: 6.4 and anti-B:4.9), compared to the healthy volunteers [n = 19, mean titer step: anti-A: 4.9 and anti-B:3.5, p = 0.02 (anti-A) and p = 0.03 (anti-B)], despite blood group O hemodialysis patients having significantly lower total plasma IgG levels (median 8.1 g/L) than healthy volunteers (11.1 g/L, p = 0.001). Neither age, nor gender determined IgG anti-A or anti-B titers. In hemodialysis patients and healthy volunteers, the upper 95% confidence limit of anti-A and anti-B titer variation (IgM and IgG) during 1 year, did not exceed 1.0 titer step in any of the ABO groups.

Conclusions

Anti-A and -B titers (IgM and IgG) remained stable in both the hemodialysis patients and healthy volunteers over a period of approximately 1 year. Blood group O hemodialysis patients had, despite lower total IgG levels, significantly elevated IgG anti-A and -B titers.

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  1. Kristian Assing and Ulrik Sprogoe contributed equally to this paper.

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  1. Department of Clinical Immunology, Odense University Hospital, J.B. Winsloews Vej 4, 5000, Odense C, Denmark

    Kristian Assing, Ulrik Sprogoe, Christian Nielsen, Mads Rasmussen & Mark Yazer

  2. Department of Pathology, Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

    Mark Yazer

  3. Department of Nephrology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

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KA designed the study, collected samples and drafted the paper; US designed the study, performed the statistics and revised the paper; CN and MR carried out experiments; MY designed the study and revised the paper; CB took care of the HD patients and revised the paper; all authors approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Approved by the Regional Committees on Health Research Ethics for Southern Denmark (protocol-id: S-20110085).

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The data on the healthy volunteers in this study have been previous published in [1].

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Assing, K., Sprogoe, U., Nielsen, C. et al. Increased but stable isoagglutinin titers in hemodialysis patients. J Nephrol 32, 121–127 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40620-018-0512-4

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