How important is acute cellular rejection?
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Acute cellular rejection.
The incidence of acute rejection of the kidney allograft in the world has been around 15% during the period between 2001 and 2003. It is clinically defined as an elevation in the level of serum creatinine by more than 0.3 mg/dL and is diagnosed by kidney biopsy. On pathologic examination, the interstitium of the allograft is diffusely edematous and infiltrated by CD4 and CD8 lymphocytes. Tubuli...
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عنوان ژورنال: Liver Transplantation
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1527-6465
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23743