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Published ahead of print on August 9, 2006
Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
© 2006 American Society of Nephrology
doi: 10.2215/CJN.01800506
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Steroid Sparing in Kidney Transplantation: Changing Paradigms, Improving Outcomes, and Remaining Questions

Joshua J. Augustine and Donald E. Hricik 1

Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, and Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio


1 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dhricik{at}aol.com.


  Abstract

The widely known adverse effects of long-term therapy with corticosteroids have motivated increasing interest in steroid-free immunosuppression for kidney transplant recipients. Results from recent trials that used newer immunosuppressants to facilitate elimination of steroids suggest better short-term results than were achieved in an earlier era. However, the best results have been reported in uncontrolled trials of low-risk patients or in randomized trials with relatively short periods of follow-up. Increasingly, the therapeutic paradigm has shifted from late withdrawal of steroids to very early withdrawal after transplantation or even complete avoidance. Induction antibody therapy has been used routinely in the most successful trials that involved early steroid withdrawal or avoidance. Although the outcomes of kidney transplant recipients who are treated with steroid-free immunosuppression are improving steadily, there still is room for concern in recommending this strategy as a standard of practice.


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