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Donors With Immune Thrombocytopenia: Do They Pose a Risk to Transplant Recipients?

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Article

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Authors

Trotter, PB 
Robb, M 
Watson, CJE 
Clatworthy, M 

Abstract

Transplant-mediated alloimmune thrombocytopenia (TMAT) from donors with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) can result in significant bleeding complications in the recipient. The risk to a recipient of TMAT if they receive an organ from a donor with ITP is unknown. The outcomes of recipients of organs from deceased donors with ITP recorded in the UK Transplant Registry between 2000 and 2015 were reviewed. Twenty-one deceased organ donors had a predonation diagnosis of ITP. These donors were significantly more likely to have died from intracranial hemorrhage than were all other deceased organ donors (85% vs. 57%, p < 0.001). Organs from donors with ITP resulted in 49 organ transplants (31 kidney, 14 liver, four heart), with only one case of TMAT, which occurred in a liver transplant recipient and resulted in death from bleeding complications 18 days posttransplantation. The recipient of a kidney from the same organ donor was not affected. Unadjusted 5-year patient and graft survival was significantly worse for liver transplant recipients from donors with ITP compared with liver transplant recipients from donors without ITP (64% vs. 85%, p = 0.012). Organs from donors with ITP may be considered for transplantation, but livers should be used with caution.

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clinical research/practice, donors and donation: deceased, health services and outcomes research, hematology/oncology, liver transplantation/hepatology, organ acceptance, organ transplantation in general, registry/registry analysis, risk assessment/risk stratification, Adult, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Graft Rejection, Graft Survival, Humans, Liver Transplantation, Male, Middle Aged, Postoperative Complications, Prognosis, Purpura, Thrombocytopenic, Idiopathic, Registries, Retrospective Studies, Risk Factors, Tissue Donors, Tissue and Organ Procurement, Transplant Recipients, Young Adult

Journal Title

Am J Transplant

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Journal ISSN

1600-6135
1600-6143

Volume Title

17

Publisher

Elsevier BV
Sponsorship
Department of Health (via National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)) (NIHR BTRU-2014-10027)
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) (unknown)
This research was supported by the National Institute of Health Research, Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) on Organ Donation and Transplantation at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Newcastle University and in partnership with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), and the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre.