Clinical Study
Impact of Acute Rejection on Kidney Allograft Outcomes in Recipients on Rapid Steroid Withdrawal
Table 6
Deaths and graft losses.
| | No rejection
| SR
| CR
|
| | Death or graft loss | 22 (5.9%) | 7 (15%)* | 9 (25%)* | | Death with function graft (DWFG) | 13 (3.5%) | 3 (6.5%) | 2 (5.6%) | | Graft loss | 9 (2.4%) | 4 (8.7%)* | 7 (19.4%)* |
| | Causes of graft loss |
| | IFTA | 2 | 3 | 2 | | Glomerular/vascular | 3 | 0 | 1 | | Nonadherence | 3 | 0 | 1 | | Acute Rejection | 0 | 1 | 1 | | BK nephropathy | 1 | 0 | 0 | | Primary non function | 0 | 0 | 1 | | Transplant pyelonephritis | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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SR: subclinical acute rejection, CR: clinical acute rejection, IFTA: interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy.
*
compared to no rejection group.
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