Kidney Pathology after Hematologic Cell Transplantation - a Single Center Observation Study of Indication Biopsies and Autopsies

• Cohort of 17 kidney biopsies and 137 autopsy kidneys of HCT patients• Membranous glomerulonephritis as putative correlate of chronic GvHD• Thrombotic microangiopathy occurs in different settings• Autopsy cases show findings otherwise rarely encountered in kidney biopsies• At autopsy, the majority of findings is related to the pre-agonal state of patients
Source: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation - Category: Hematology Authors: Source Type: research