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A case of IgA nephropathy after ABO-incompatible living kidney transplantation
O Takeuchi1, T Oikawa, T Usami
1The Third Department of Internal Medicine, Nagoya City University Medical School, Nagoya, Japan.
Clinical Transplantation
|April 6, 2000
Abstract:
A 39-yr-old Japanese man underwent living related kidney transplantation. Because the graft was ABO-incompatible, he was treated with double filtration plasmapheresis before transplantation and his immunosuppressive therapy was stronger than usual. However, immunoglobulin A nephropathy, accompanied by cellular crescents and necrotizing lesions, developed after 18 months. To our knowledge, the association of IgA nephropathy with ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation has not been reported previously.