Global Dialysis - Mayo Clinic study suggests chronic allograft nephropathy less common than previously.

Mayo Clinic study suggests chronic allograft nephropathy less common than previously.

EurekAlert: The study, involving 797 patients transplanted between 1998 and 2004 and followed for at least five years, shows that 87 percent of patients have mild or no signs of progressive scar damage to the transplanted organ when biopsied at one year after transplant. This number decreases only slightly at the five-year mark (83 percent). In contrast, studies of patients transplanted in the early 1990s suggested that a majority of transplanted kidneys were affected by progressive scarring that ultimately led to failure of the transplant.

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