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Session 4 : Post-Transplant - Late Complications/Hot Topics

4.0 - Antiviral Pipeline - How We Will be Treating CMV, EBV, BK Virus 10 Years From Now

Presenter: Hans, Hirsch, Basel, Switzerland
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Infections remain a significant challenge to the outcome of transplantation (1, 2). Although transplantation medicine has witnessed improved outcomes due to the art of transplant infectious disease (TID) fostering better diagnosis and delivery of prophylactic, preemptive and therapeutic interventions (3), viral infections remain a significant challenge (4). Although different viruses differ in their intrinsic and situational pathogenic potential, the principle denominator is the obligatory intracellular phase of viral replication reprogramming the host cell metabolism and rendering the recognition of “non-self” and “self” less distinct in the allogeneic transplantation (4, 5). Thereby, key deficiencies become exquisitely prominent in transplantation and clinical virology:

1. Lack of effective immune recognition in immunosuppressed patients: whereby anti-donor immunity and higher HLA-mismatches needing more immunosuppressive intensity escalate viral immune escape.

2. Lack of antiviral drugs with high selectivity, little toxicity, and high efficacy: whereby the rapid viral replication kinetics with one and more generations per day and lack of immune control result in emergence of drug-resistant variants.

3. Lack of effective vaccines and vaccine combinations pre- and post-transplant: whereby humoral and cellular immunity is restored in an allogeneic context without precipitating immunopathology or rejection.


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