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During rejection, renal transplant recipients have increased concentrations of soluble interleukin-2 receptors (sIL-2R) in their serum and urine. However, the clinical application of this measurement in the diagnosis of rejection or the assessment of treatment efficacy is limited by the variance of the measurement in sample populations. We examined the serum and urine sIL-2R concentrations in 20 renal transplant recipients, 12 of whom experienced 13 episodes of allograft rejection. There was no statistical difference in the mean serum sIL-2R concentration at the time of rejection compared with the baseline value (2,817 +/- 801 v 1,943 +/- 255 U/mL). By contrast, the urinary excretion rate, expressed as units of sIL-2R per milligram creatinine, was 26.2 +/- 6.4 compared with 14.2 +/- 2.5 (P < 0.05). Furthermore, when urinary sIL-2R was expressed as a fractional excretion (FE), both the absolute measurement (4.4% +/- 1.7%) and the percent increase (+245%) at the time of rejection provided the greatest degree of discrimination of rejection from those values during allograft stability (1.2% +/- .2% and +2.5%, respectively; P < 0.005). We conclude that (1) serum and urine sIL-2R concentrations are affected by a number of factors during rejection; (2) FE calculations of sIL-2R improve discrimination of rejection from graft stability; and (3) serial measurement of sIL-2R excretion may be a useful adjunct to the diagnosis of rejection and, possibly, the subsequent assessment of response to immunotherapy.
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