Progress in Pathological Diagnosis after Kidney Transplantation: Current Trend and Future Perspective.

ABSTRACT: Advances in immunosuppressive therapy; posttransplant management of allograft rejection; and measures against infectious diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and malignancy dramatically improved graft and patient survival after kidney transplantation (KT). Among them, kidney allograft biopsy is an important tool and the gold standard for the diagnosis of various kidney allograft injuries, including allograft rejection, virus-induced nephropathy, calcineurin inhibitor toxicity, and posttransplant glomerular diseases. The Banff Conference on Allograft Pathology has contributed to establishing the diagnostic criteria for kidney allograft rejection and polyomavirus-associated nephropathy that are used as a common standard worldwide. In addition to the for-cause biopsy, many transplant centers pe

SUBMITTER: Masutani K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10322740 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature