The reliability of pre-transplant donor renal biopsies (PTDB) in predicting the kidney state. A comparative single-centre study on 154 untransplanted kidneys

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3401-3408

  Mazzucco, Gianna ^a   Magnani, Corrado ^b   Fortunato, Mirella ^c   Todesco, Annalisa ^b   Monga, Guido ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^c Saint Croce and Carle Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

kidney transplantation; morphological biopsy score validation; pre transplant donor biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FIBROSIS; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRE TRANSPLANT DONOR RENAL BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCLEROSIS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 77957245932     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq166     Document Type: Article

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