title: The use of the kidney biopsy to predict allograft loss in a pediatric transplant population.
abstract: Forty-seven biopsy specimens of renal allografts from pediatric transplant recipients were evaluated by light microscopy using a 117 item survey of histopathologic changes. The presence and distribution of immunofluorescent staining were also evaluated. Histopathologic findings associated with irreversible allograft rejection were determined using statistical methods and then correlated with one another. The effect on allograft survival when several of these features were present on the same specimen was assessed. Glomerular, arteriolar and small artery changes were associated with irreversible rejection. When several of these histologic findings occurred on the same biopsy specimen the allograft was always lost. Interstitial and tubular changes generally not predictive of rejection and immunofluorescent staining was not associated with graft loss.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D002648:Child; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus / Q000473:pathology; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous