PHILADELPHIA — Recurrent glomerulonephritis and long-term graft survival vary in certain patients who had a kidney transplant, data presented at the American Transplant Congress shows.
“[Glomerulonephritis (GN) recurrence is an important cause of death-censored graft loss,” Romain Brousse, MD, MSc, of the Paris Institute for Transplantation and Organ Regeneration, said in a presentation. “Only a limited number of studies have evaluated the impact of native kidney disease reoccurrence on allograft survival.”
Researchers conducted a prospective, phenotyped cohort