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<p>There is no established treatment for late or chronic antibody-mediated rejection of a kidney graft. Rituximab-based treatment is not effective, since long-lived high-affinity plasma cells do not express CD20 and do not depend on previous maturation steps to generate donor-specific antibodies. Conversely, daratumumab, an anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody, directly targets plasma cells, with proven efficacy in multiple myeloma. Early reports in heart and kidney transplantation showed its efficacy in the setting of antibody-mediated rejection or desensitization. However, the dosage to be&#xa0;used was assumed to be the same as in&#xa0;multiple myeloma treatment. We present the case of a patient with late antibody-mediated rejection, resistant to two cycles of rituximab-based therapy, who underwent a cycle of plasma exchange and intravenous gammaglobulins preceded and followed by only 2 doses of daratumumab. Bone marrow aspirate after the cycle demonstrated negativization of CD38 + cells, which was followed by negativization of the donor-specific antibodies and improvement of microinflammation at kidney biopsy. This suggests that the myeloma-like dosage used in previous reports may not be necessary for non-neoplastic diseases like antibody-mediated rejection. We propose a pragmatic approach, based on the assessment of bone marrow plasma cells after treatment, to avoid unnecessary side effects and optimize resources.</p> Graphical abstract <p></p>

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Searching for the minimum required dose of daratumumab to induce effective plasma cell depletion in antibody-mediated rejection of the kidney graft: a case report

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    2025年1月14日

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  • Julia Ollé,
  • Ana Belen Larque,
  • Carlos Fernandez de Larrea,
  • Fritz Diekmann,
  • David Cucchiari

摘要

There is no established treatment for late or chronic antibody-mediated rejection of a kidney graft. Rituximab-based treatment is not effective, since long-lived high-affinity plasma cells do not express CD20 and do not depend on previous maturation steps to generate donor-specific antibodies. Conversely, daratumumab, an anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody, directly targets plasma cells, with proven efficacy in multiple myeloma. Early reports in heart and kidney transplantation showed its efficacy in the setting of antibody-mediated rejection or desensitization. However, the dosage to be used was assumed to be the same as in multiple myeloma treatment. We present the case of a patient with late antibody-mediated rejection, resistant to two cycles of rituximab-based therapy, who underwent a cycle of plasma exchange and intravenous gammaglobulins preceded and followed by only 2 doses of daratumumab. Bone marrow aspirate after the cycle demonstrated negativization of CD38 + cells, which was followed by negativization of the donor-specific antibodies and improvement of microinflammation at kidney biopsy. This suggests that the myeloma-like dosage used in previous reports may not be necessary for non-neoplastic diseases like antibody-mediated rejection. We propose a pragmatic approach, based on the assessment of bone marrow plasma cells after treatment, to avoid unnecessary side effects and optimize resources.

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