Application of IL-15mRNA determination in the early diagnosis and differential diagnosis of early acute rejection following liver transplantation / 中华器官移植杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the value of IL15mRNA determination in the early diagnosis and differential diagnosis of acute rejection(AR) after liver transplantation.Methods RT-PCR was used to detect the mRNA of IL-15 in serum and bile on the 30th day after liver transplantation in 43 patients subject to orthotopic piggy-back liver transplantation.Serum and bile of the patients were cultured for bacteria.The acute rejection was confirmed pathologically. Results Acute rejection(occurred) in 16 out of 43 cases as the AR group and bacterial infection(BI) in 12 cases as the BI group.The (remaining) 15 patients were uneventful as the control group.Before diagnosis of AR and BI,the gene expression rate of IL-5 in bile was significantly higher in AR group((62.5 %)) than in BI group((16.7 %)) and control group((13.3 %))(P