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Recurrent glomerulopathy in the renal allograft.

Joshi K, Nada R, Minz M, Sakhuja V

Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. kus_joshi@yahoo.com

The renal allograft is prone to develop almost all forms of glomerular diseases either as recurrent or de novo disease, with the exception of Alport's syndrome. Identification of recurrent glomerulonephritis requires an accurate diagnosis of pretransplant disease, which may not always be possible as it presents as end-stage renal disease at the time of transplantation. Posttransplantation glomerular diseases such as chronic allograft nephropathy, malignant hypertension, and thrombotic microangiopathy due to various causes may be mistaken for primary glomerulonephritis. In this article, an attempt has been made to identify the glomerular diseases that were detected in renal allografts over a 9-year period, comprising 950 cases in a tertiary care center in north India.

Published 20 April 2007 in Transplant Proc, 39(3): 734-6.
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