NDT Advance Access published online on May 21, 2007
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm275
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Cigarette smoking and chronic allograft nephropathy
1Clinical Division of Nephrology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, 2Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, Academic Teaching Hospital Feldkirch, Feldkirch, 3Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology and 4Clinical Division of Transplant Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
Correspondence and offprint requests to: Dr Karl Lhotta, Clinical Division of Nephrology, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstrasse 35, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria, Email: Karl.lhotta{at}uki.at
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Background. Smoking has been demonstrated to decrease patient and graft survival after kidney transplantation. Data on histological changes associated with smoking in renal allografts are lacking.
Methods. Smoking habits before and after renal transplantation were evaluated by questionnaire in 279 patients. A transplant biopsy was performed more than 1 year after transplantation in 76 of them. Histological changes were classified according to Banff 97 criteria. Linear regression analysis and proportional odds models for histological changes including the factors age, gender, diabetes, body mass index, donor age, time since transplantation, history of acute rejection and smoking status were calculated.
Results. Overall 22% of patients continued smoking after transplantation, with the proportion decreasing from 38% of those transplanted before 1990 to 13% of those transplanted after 2000. Serum creatinine was non-significantly higher in smokers (2.3 ± 2.7 mg/dl vs 1.8 ± 1.4 mg/dl, P = 0.21). A renal biopsy was performed in 24% of non-smokers and 39% of smokers (P = 0.02), and smokers were biopsied on average 1.5 years earlier. Among biopsied patients current smokers tended to suffer more often from diabetes (25.0% vs 13.5%, P = 0.33), to develop transplant failure (33.3% vs 21.2%, P = 0.25) or experience a cardiovascular event (29.2% vs 15.4%, P = 0.16). The frequency of acute rejection was comparable between smokers and non-smokers (25.0% vs 34.6%, P = 0.40). Glomerular sclerosis was associated with diabetes (P = 0.03). Severity of vascular intimal fibrous thickening was associated with current smoking (P = 0.004), whereas the degree of arteriolar hyalinosis (P < 0.001) and chronic/sclerosing nephropathy (P = 0.05) were associated with time since transplantation.
Conclusions. The number of patients who continue cigarette smoking after renal transplantation has decreased in recent years. The main allograft lesion associated with smoking is fibrous intimal thickening of small arteries.
Keywords: arteriolar hyalinosis; arteriopathy; cigarette smoking; chronic allograft nephropathy; kidney transplantation
Received for publication: 29. 1.07
Accepted in revised form: 13. 4.07
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