Pooja Budhiraja, Richard Butterfield, Juan Gea-Banacloche, Sundararaman Swaminathan, Maxwell L Smith, Hassan A Khamash, Hay Me Me, Lavanya Kodali, Girish K Mour, Sumi Nair, Suman Misra, Raymond L Heilman
BACKGROUND: Urinary Tract Infections are the most common post-transplant infection and can have varied presentations. This study aimed to describe the outcomes of kidney transplant recipients with asymptomatic histologic pyelonephritis on allograft biopsy. Histologic Pyelonephritis was defined as neutrophil cast or neutrophilic tubulitis, interstitial infiltrates with predominant neutrophils, and no evidence of rejection or glomerulonephritis on biopsy. METHODS: The study included 123 kidney transplant recipients, of whom 95 underwent protocol biopsies, and 28 had biopsies for elevated creatinine within the first 2 years of a kidney transplant...
September 13, 2023: Clinical Transplantation