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Clinical rejection is distinguished from subclinical rejection by increased infiltration by a population of activated macrophages.
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN - 1 Jul 1999
Grimm P C, McKenna R, Nickerson P, Russell M E, Gough J, Gospodarek E, Liu B, Jeffery J, Rush D N
Abstract excerpt
It has been reported previously that one-third of protocol renal biopsies in asymptomatic, biochemically stable renal transplant recipients in the first 6 mo show unsuspected subclinical graft rejection (both infiltrate and tubulitis) and that subclinical rejection is a risk factor for chronic renal dysfunction. This study was performed to determine whether differences in phenotype or activation status of...
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