イシダ ヒデキ   Ishida Hideki
  石田 英樹
   所属   医学部 医学科(東京女子医科大学病院)
   職種   教授
論文種別 原著
言語種別 英語
査読の有無 査読あり
表題 The medical cost and outcome of desensitization protocol in kidney transplantation recipients with high immunological risks.
掲載誌名 正式名:International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association
略  称:Int J Urol
ISSNコード:09198172/14422042
掲載区分国外
巻・号・頁 31(4),pp.422-429
著者・共著者 Maenosono Ryoichi, Unagami Kohei, Oki Rikako, Fujiwara Yuya, Banno Taro, Okada Daigo, Yagisawa Takafumi, Kanzawa Taichi, Hirai Toshihito, Omoto Kazuya, Hanafusa Norio, Azuma Haruhito, Takagi Toshio, Ishida Hideki
担当区分 最終著者
発行年月 2024/04
概要 Background: Kidney transplantation is a well-established alternative in renal replacement therapy. Compared with hemodialysis, low-immunological-risk kidney transplantation can reduce the medical treatment costs associated with end-stage renal disease. However, there are few reports on whether high-immunological-risk kidney transplantation reduces the financial burden on governments. We investigated the medical costs of high-immunological-risk kidney transplantation in comparison with the cost of hemodialysis in Japan.
Methods: We compared the medical costs of high-immunological-risk kidney transplantation with those of hemodialysis. 15 patients who underwent crossmatch-positive and/or donor-specific antibody-positive kidney transplantations between 2020 and 2021 were enrolled in this study. The patients received intravenous immunoglobulin, plasmapheresis, and rituximab as desensitizing therapy.
Results: Acute antibody-mediated rejection was detected in nine (60%) recipients, while there were no indications of graft function deterioration during the follow-up. For each patient, the transplant hospitalization cost was 38 428 ± 8789 USD. However, the cumulative costs were 59 758 ± 10 006 USD and 79 781 ± 16 366 USD, at 12 and 24 months, respectively. Compared with hemodialysis (34 286 USD per year), high-immunological-risk kidney transplantation tends to be expensive in the first year, but the cost is likely to be lower than that of hemodialysis after 3 years.
Conclusions: Although kidney transplantation is initially expensive compared with hemodialysis, the medical cost becomes advantageous after 3 years even in kidney transplant recipients with high immunological risk.
DOI 10.1111/iju.15383
PMID 38193573