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Hae Yoon Grace Choung1, Suzanne Meleg-Smith
1Debakey Scholars Program, Tulane University School of Medicine , New Orleans, LA , USA and.
Abstract:
To compare "for cause" renal biopsies (bx) from adult recipients of pediatric-donor kidneys (PDK) versus adult-donor kidneys (ADKs), we reviewed 103 graft bx from 50 PDK recipients and 85 bx from 49 ADK recipients. PDK bx displayed more frequent glomerular pathology with immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis present in 11/103 PDK versus 1/85 ADK (p < 0.05). In 15/103 PDK bx and 1/85 ADK (p = 0.001), the association of glomerular sclerosis, expanded mesangium, and halo of prominent podocytes by light microscopy, and ultrastructural glomerular basement membrane lamellation, configured a characteristic glomerulopathy.
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