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| Montagner,Juliana; Michelon,Tatiana; Fontanelle,Barbara; Oliveira,Alexandre; Silveira,Janaina; Schroeder,Regina; Neumann,Jorge; Keitel,Elizete; Alexandre,Claudio Osmar Pereira. |
| INTRODUCTION: BKV nephropathy (BKN) causes kidney graft loss, whose specific diagnosis is invasive and might be predicted by the early detection of active viral infection. OBJECTIVE: Determine the BKV-infection prevalence in late kidney graft dysfunction by urinary decoy cell (DC) and viral DNA detection in urine (viruria) and blood (viremia; active infection). METHODS: Kidney recipients with >1 month follow-up and creatinine >1.5 mg/dL and/or recent increasing >20% (n = 120) had their urine and blood tested for BKV by semi-nested PCR, DC searching, and graft biopsy. PCR-positive patients were classified as 1+, 2+, 3+. DC, viruria and viremia prevalence, sensitivity, specificity, and likelihood ratio (LR) were determined (Table 2x2). Diagnosis... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: BK virus; Decoy cells; Kidney transplantation; PCR; Viremia; Viruria. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702010000200010 |
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