[Progression of chronic renal insufficiency in chronic rejection: the role of chronic transplantation glomerulopathy].

Unlabelled: Chronic rejection of kidney transplant is a chronic and progressive decline of kidney transplant function related to certain morphologic changes, such as obliterate vasculopathy, interstitial fibrosis, tubular atrophy, and transplant glomerulopathy [1]. The purpose of this study was to investigate the involvement of chronic transplant glomerulopathy in the progression of chronic renal failure.

Method, Patients: Of 16 transplant patients with histologic diagnosis of chronic kidney transplant rejection in biopsy specimens, 8 patients had chronic transplant glomerulopathy (ChR-1), and in the other 8 patients glomeruli were relatively preserved (ChR-2).