Articles tagged "Histology"

2015 American Transplant Congress
A New Diagnostic and Pronostic Tool for Antibody Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplantation: Intragraft Donor Specific Anti-HLA Antibodies Detection
J. Olagne,^1,2,3 A. Parissiadis,² S. Caillard,¹ N. Froelich,² L. Marcellin,³ C. Muller,¹ G. Gautier-Vargas,¹ P. Perrin,¹ L. Braun-Parvez,¹ F. Heibel,¹ C. Gachet,² B. Moulin.¹
¹Service de Néphrologie - Transplantation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Strasbourg, France; ²Laboratoire d'Histocompatibilité, Etablissement Français du Sang, Strasbourg, France; ³Département de Pathologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Strasbourg, France.
INTRODUCTION: Antibody mediated rejection (AMR) is one of the main cause of loss of the kidney transplant. Despite the new BANFF classification, diagnostic difficulties and…
2015 American Transplant Congress
MYH9 Polymorphic Variants and Chronic Lesions in Transplanted Kidney Biopsy
J. Pazik,¹ M. Oldak,² Z. Lewandowski,³ D. Ozieblo,⁴ K. Michalska,⁵ A. Perkowska Ptasińska,¹ A. Sadowska,¹ M. Nowaczyk,⁵ J. Malejczyk,⁴ M. Durlik.¹
¹Department of Nephrology and Transplantation Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; ²Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw, Poland; ³Department of Epidemiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; ⁴Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; ⁵Department of Clinical Immunology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
MYH9 encoding a non-muscle myosin heavy chain IIA is expressed in podocytes, mesangial, tubular, capillary endothelial cells and vascular wall. Intronic variants of MYH9 associate…