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Utility of Serial Protocol Biopsies Performed After 1 Year in Predicting Long-Term Kidney Allograft Function According to Histologic Phenotype.
Experimental and clinical transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - 1 Aug 2018
Zachariah Mareena S, Dwivedi Alok K, Yip Cindy S, Chang Shirley S, Gundroo Aijaz, Venuto Rocco C, Tomaszewski John, Patel Sunil K, Sharma Rajeev
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OBJECTIVES: Prognostic implications of early protocol biopsies have been studied; however, the value of late protocol biopsy in predicting graft outcome has not been well defined. Here, we compared the effects of early and late protocol biopsy histologic findings in stable kidney allografts and aimed to understand the significance of "borderline" rejection on allograft function. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We studied...
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