• DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60699-5
Corpus ID: 33946493

Diagnosis and prevention of chronic kidney allograft loss

@article{Nankivell2011DiagnosisAP,
  title={Diagnosis and prevention of chronic kidney allograft loss},
  author={B. Nankivell and D. Kuypers},
  journal={The Lancet},
  year={2011},
  volume={378},
  pages={1428-1437}
}

B. Nankivell, D. Kuypers

Published 2011

Medicine

The Lancet

Kidney transplantation is the best possible treatment for many patients with end-stage renal failure, but progressive dysfunction and eventual allograft loss with return to dialysis is associated with increased mortality and morbidity. Immune injury from acute or chronic rejection and non-immune causes, such as nephrotoxicity from calcineurin inhibitors, ischaemia-reperfusion injury, recurrent glomerular disease, and allograft BK viral infection, are potential threats. Serial monitoring of… CONTINUE READING

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