Peritubular capillary C4d staining in late acute renal allograft rejection - Is it relevant?

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 61-67

  Satoskar, Anjali A ^a   Lehman, Amy M ^a   Nadasdy, Gyongyi M ^a   Sedmak, Daniel D ^a   Pesavento, Todd E ^a   Henry, Mitchell L ^a   Pelletier, Ronald P ^a   Ferguson, Ronald M ^a   Nadasdy, Tibor ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic allograft nephropathy; Late acute rejection; Late post transplant setting; Peritubular capillary C4d; Renal allograft biopsy

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4D; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN A; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER KIDNEY; CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY; COMPLEMENT DEPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLASMA CELL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CAPILLARIES; COMPLEMENT C4B; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TUBULES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38549153829     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2007.00745.x     Document Type: Article

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