Abstract

PEREZ RODRIGUEZ, Alexis et al. Biopsy in renal transplant: Analysis of the results in 5 years of work at the Nephrology Institute. Rev cubana med [online]. 2005, vol.44, n.5-6. ISSN 0034-7523.

208 kidney biopsies were performed in 197 renal transplants between 2000 and 2004. 31.8 % corresponded to living donors and the rest were from dead donors. Hyperacute or acute accelerated rejection was observed in 6 cases (3.1 %), and suspicion of rejection in 15 cases (7.9 %). The type 1 acute rejection was the most frequent. It was found in 20 cases (10.5 %). 16 cases of type 2 and 3 acute rejection (8.3 %) were diagnosed. All the type 3 patients lost the graft function. Sclerosing chronic nephropathy was detected in 42 cases (22.1 %). Changes that were not considered as rejection were also analyzed. The acute tubular necrosis was the most common in them, since it was found in 71 patients, accounting for 37.5 %.

Keywords : Renal transplant; acute renal graft rejection.

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