Clinical value to regularly detect donor DNA in urine of renal transplant recipients / 中华器官移植杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the relationship between the appearance of donor cells in urine and acute rejection and the clinical implication. Methods Eighty renal transplantation patients were observed, in which the donors were male and the recipients were female, or HLA DR antigen were mismatched (30 cases were at perioperative period, 20 cases were subjected to acute rejection, 30 cases had stable renal function). Urine samples were collected regularly. PCR and PCR SSP were applied to detect DYZ 1 (special gene fragment of Y chromosome) and DRB 1of HLA DR antigen respectively after DNA were obtained.Results Perioperative period group donor cells in urine were detected in all the patients 24?h after operation. With the development of disease, the intensity of donor DNA expression in urine was decreased generally. 30 days later, donor cells in urine disappeared only in 3 cases of 30 cases, and acute rejection happened in 8 cases of the rest 27 cases. Acute rejection group donor cells in urine were detected in 18 cases (90%); 2 weeks following anti rejection therapy, donor cells in urine were negative only in 3 cases, still positive in the other 15 cases, and the intensity of donor DNA expression in urine was decreased generally during the treatment. Donor cells in urine were negative in 16 cases ( 88.9% ) after treatment for 3 months. Stable renal function group DYZ 1 or HLA DRB1 was positive in 2 cases ( 6.7% ), negative in 28 cases ( 93.3% ). Conclusion PCR and PCR SSP were used to detect DNA of donor cells in urine, which would be a new method to diagnose acute rejection of renal transplantation, but would not exactly fit for those happened in early stage. The intensity change of donor DNA expression in urine represented the recovery of renal transplantation, which provided the possibility to evaluate renal allograft rejection quantitatively at the same time.