Comparing Urine and Blood Screening Methods to Detect BK Virus After Renal Transplant.

CONCLUSIONS: Although screening for BK polyomavirus in urine did detect viralreactivation earlier,there were no differences in graft or clinical outcomes when either the urine or blood screening method was used.
PMID: 31801449 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - November 28, 2019 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: McGann K, DeWolfe D, Jacobs M, Wojciechowski D, Pavlakis M, Tan CS Tags: Exp Clin Transplant Source Type: research