Relationship between renal histology and later graft outcome |
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| Authors: | H Isoniemi J Ahonen B Eklund P Häyry K Höckerstedt L Krogerus K Salmela E Taskinen |
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| Affiliation: | IV Department of Surgery and Transplantation Laboratory, Helsinki University, Kasarmikatu 11, SF-00130 Helsinki 13, Finland |
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| Abstract: | Abstract We have created the chronic allograft damage index (CADI), which quantifies the early histopathological changes in renal allografts. In this study we showed that the CADI at 2 years after renal transplantation predicted the graft outcome 4 years later and that the CADI identified the risk group that proceeded to chronic rejection during subsequent years. |
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| Keywords: | Chronic rejection Renal transplantation Renal allograft Renal histology |
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