title: Principal neuropathological and general necropsy findings in 24 renal transplant patients.
abstract: The principal neuropathological and general pathological findings in a group of 24 patients with renal transplants who died in a nine-year period at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, are described. Opportunistic infections--bacterial, protozoal, and fungal--were the commonest causes of death. Other causes included cardiac and vascular lesions, upper gastrointestinal bleeding and neoplasia.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000473:pathology; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009181:Mycoses / Q000473:pathology; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000473:pathology