This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81770749);the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(No.2017A030313710);the Basic Scientific Research Fund of Sun Yat-Sen University(No.17ykpy29).
Background:BK polyomavirus(BKPyV)-associated nephropathy(BKPyVAN)is an important cause of dysfunction and failure of renal transplants.This study aimed to assess the diagnostic performance of morning urine specific gr...
grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81770749);Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (No. 2017A030313710);Basic Scientific Research Fund of Sun Yat-Sen University (No.17ykpy29).
Background: BK virus-associated nephropathy (BKVN) is an important cause of chronic allograft dysfunction. The objective of our study was to evaluate the prognosis of BKVN. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the dat...
BACKGROUND Polyomavirus-associated nephropathy is a leading cause of kidney allograft failure. Therapeutic options are limited and prompt reduction of the net state of immunosuppression represents the mainstay of trea...
AIM To evaluate incidence, risk factors and treatment outcome of BK polyomavirus nephropathy(BKVN) in a cohort of renal transplant recipients in the Auckland region without a formal BK polyomavirus(BKV) surveillance p...
Polyomavirus BK(BKV) infects up to 90% of the general population. After primary infection, occurring early during childhood, a state of non-replicative infection is established in the reno-urinary tract, without compl...
AIM: To describe the clinicopathologic features of concurrent polyomavirus nephropathy(PVN) and endarteritis due to rejection in renal allografts.METHODS: We searched our electronic records database for cases with tra...