Kidney Transplants

Findings from Seoul National University, Medical Department advance knowledge in kidney transplants

Published in Blood Weekly, May 20th, 2010

According to recent research published in the journal Transplantation, "Henoch-Schonlein nephritis (HSN) is a rare condition resulting in end-stage renal disease. Therefore, graft outcomes and recurrence rates after transplantation are not well studied."

"Also, the effect of donor type on graft outcome has not been evaluated thoroughly. The graft outcome and recurrence rate in 20 kidney recipients with HSN were compared with age-, sex-, and donor source-matched controls (control A, primary immunoglobulin A nephropathy; control B, other causes; 40 recipients per group). To assess the effect of donor type, we pooled our data with two previous cohort studies where...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2010-05-20)

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