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- Title
Recurrent Glomerulonephritis after Renal Transplantation: The Clinical Problem.
- Authors
Infante, Barbara; Rossini, Michele; Leo, Serena; Troise, Dario; Netti, Giuseppe Stefano; Ranieri, Elena; Gesualdo, Loreto; Castellano, Giuseppe; Stallone, Giovanni
- Abstract
Glomerulonephritis (GN) continues to be one of the main causes of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) with an incidence rating from 10.5% to 38.2%. Therefore, recurrent GN, previously considered to be a minor contributor to graft loss, is the third most common cause of graft failure 10 years after renal transplantation. However, the incidence, pathogenesis, and natural course of recurrences are still not completely understood. This review focuses on the most frequent diseases that recur after renal transplantation, analyzing rate of recurrence, epidemiology and risk factors, pathogenesis and bimolecular mechanisms, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and therapy, taking into consideration the limited data available in the literature. First of all, the risk for recurrence depends on the type of glomerulonephritis. For example, recipient patients with anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) disease present recurrence rarely, but often exhibit rapid graft loss. On the other hand, recipient patients with C3 glomerulonephritis present recurrence in more than 50% of cases, although the disease is generally slowly progressive. It should not be forgotten that every condition that can lead to chronic graft dysfunction should be considered in the differential diagnosis of recurrence. Therefore, a complete workup of renal biopsy, including light, immunofluorescence and electron microscopy study, is essential to provide the diagnosis, excluding alternative diagnosis that may require different treatment. We will examine in detail the biomolecular mechanisms of both native and transplanted kidney diseases, monitoring the risk of recurrence and optimizing the available treatment options.
- Subjects
GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; CHRONIC kidney failure; PATHOLOGY; CLINICAL epidemiology; BASAL lamina; KIDNEY diseases
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020, Vol 21, Issue 17, p5954
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms21175954