Impact of Acute Rejection on Kidney Allograft Outcomes in Recipients on Rapid Steroid Withdrawal

Table 5

Treatment of acute rejection.

	SR (𝑛=46)	CR (𝑛=36)^∗
Pulse corticosteroids	32 (71%)	26 (72%)
Average number of doses	1.7	2.5**
Total dose of pulse corticosteroid (mg/day, mean ± SD)	863±446	1240±439 **
r-ATG	0	1
IVIg	1	0
TPE, IVIg	1	0
TPE, rituximab	1 (2%)	6 (17%)
Upward adjustment of immunosuppression	11 (24%)	3 (8%)

SR: subclinical rejection, CR: clinical rejection, r-ATG: rabbit-antithymocyte globulin, IVIg: intravenous immunoglobulin, TPE: therapeutic plasmapheresis.
* 𝑃=.06 for overall difference in category of treatment.
** 𝑃=.003.