Article
Deriving and understanding the risk of post-transplant recurrence of nephrotic syndrome in the light of current molecular and genetic advances.
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Nov 2018
Bierzynska Agnieszka, Saleem Moin A
Abstract excerpt
After renal transplantation, recurrence of the original disease is the second most common cause of graft loss, after rejection. The most dramatic manifestation of this phenomenon is in patients with nephrotic syndrome (NS). NS is a descriptive term describing a clinical picture centred on proteinuria arising from damage to the glomerular filtration barrier (GFB). There are many different drivers of that damage,...
Topics
- Allografts
- Biomarkers
- Genetic Testing
- Graft Survival
- Humans
- Kidney Failure, Chronic
- Kidney Transplantation
- Mutation
- Nephrotic Syndrome
- Podocytes
- Recurrence
