European scientists have found a full range of markers in the blood of kidney transplant patients which could predict whether their new organ will be a success and whether they need large amounts of medication to help it.
The researchers said on Tuesday the finding may help doctors to give more personalized care to transplant patients and to modify the amount of powerful immunosuppressant drugs they have to take to prevent their bodies from rejecting a new kidney.
The scientists, led by Maria Hernandez-Fuentes at King’s College London, studied various groups of kidney transplant patients in Europe, including 11 patients who had stopped taking their drugs after the transplant but did not reject the donor organ since they appeared to have a natural “tolerance” for it.
They carried out detailed tests of blood samples and found differences in the immune systems particular to these patients.
“We hope that now we can start to look at screening other patients to see if they also have similar markers in their blood,” said Rachel Hilton, a renal consultant at Guy’s Hospital in London and co-author of the study.
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