Open AccessMolecular monitoring of alloimmune-mediated injury in kidney transplant patients
Author(s) -
Opas Traita,
Emilio D. Poggio,
Robert L. Fairchild
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
current opinion in nephrology and hypertension/current opinion in nephrology and hypertension, with evaluated medline
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.158
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1080-8221
pISSN - 1062-4821
DOI - 10.1097/mnh.0000000000000064
Subject(s) - medicine , kidney transplantation , acute kidney injury , immune system , kidney , transplant rejection , transplantation , bioinformatics , intensive care medicine , pathology , immunology , biology
Rapid progress in molecular technology has allowed development of numerous molecular tools to help the clinician to evaluate graft status in kidney transplant patients. This review highlights recent findings, describing the use of molecular approaches to monitor, diagnose, and predict alloimmune-mediated injury in kidney grafts.