Transplantation: Polyomavirus Nephropathy and the Risk of Specific Immunosuppression Regimens

BK virus is ubiquitously present in the latent state in humans, and awareness of the importance of BK polyomavirus is emerging among the kidney transplant community. First discovered in 1971 in the urine of a renal transplant recipient, BK virus nephropathy (BKVN) has come to be recognized as a sign...

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Autores principales: Wu, Christine, Randhawa, Parmjeet, McCauley, Jerry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2006
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5917340/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16648908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2006.93
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description BK virus is ubiquitously present in the latent state in humans, and awareness of the importance of BK polyomavirus is emerging among the kidney transplant community. First discovered in 1971 in the urine of a renal transplant recipient, BK virus nephropathy (BKVN) has come to be recognized as a significant cause of genitourinary disease and potential graft loss in the kidney transplant patient. In this review, we discuss the risk factors, available methods of diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring, and current approaches to therapy of BKVN.
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spelling pubmed-59173402018-06-03 Transplantation: Polyomavirus Nephropathy and the Risk of Specific Immunosuppression Regimens Wu, Christine Randhawa, Parmjeet McCauley, Jerry ScientificWorldJournal Review Article BK virus is ubiquitously present in the latent state in humans, and awareness of the importance of BK polyomavirus is emerging among the kidney transplant community. First discovered in 1971 in the urine of a renal transplant recipient, BK virus nephropathy (BKVN) has come to be recognized as a significant cause of genitourinary disease and potential graft loss in the kidney transplant patient. In this review, we discuss the risk factors, available methods of diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring, and current approaches to therapy of BKVN. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2006-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5917340/ /pubmed/16648908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2006.93 Text en Copyright © 2006 Christine Wu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Wu, Christine
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Transplantation: Polyomavirus Nephropathy and the Risk of Specific Immunosuppression Regimens
title Transplantation: Polyomavirus Nephropathy and the Risk of Specific Immunosuppression Regimens
title_full Transplantation: Polyomavirus Nephropathy and the Risk of Specific Immunosuppression Regimens
title_fullStr Transplantation: Polyomavirus Nephropathy and the Risk of Specific Immunosuppression Regimens
title_full_unstemmed Transplantation: Polyomavirus Nephropathy and the Risk of Specific Immunosuppression Regimens
title_short Transplantation: Polyomavirus Nephropathy and the Risk of Specific Immunosuppression Regimens
title_sort transplantation: polyomavirus nephropathy and the risk of specific immunosuppression regimens
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5917340/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16648908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2006.93
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