Antibody-mediated rejection with the presence of glomerular crescents in a pediatric kidney transplant recipient : A case report

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Glomerular crescents in kidney transplantation are indicative of severe glomerular injury and constitute a hallmark of RPGN. Their concurrence with ABMR has been rarely described only in adult patients. We report a case of 10-year-old boy with compound heterozygous Fin-major Finnish-type congenital nephrotic syndrome, who had received a deceased-donor kidney transplant 5 years before onset of acute kidney injury and nephrotic range proteinuria without hematuria. Kidney allograft biopsy illustrated 6 glomeruli with global sclerosis and 6 with remarkable circumferential or segmental cellular crescents. Negative glomerular immunofluorescence for immune-complex deposits and the absence of serum ANCA eliminated the presence of immune-mediated and ANCA-positive pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis. Diagnosis of ABMR was based on the high levels of HLA class II DSA and the histological evidence of glomerulitis, peritubular capillaritis, and acute tubular injury with positive linear peritubular capillary C4d staining. The patient despite plasmapheresis and enhanced immunosuppressive treatment progressed to end-stage renal disease. We conclude that glomerular crescents may represent a finding of AMBR and possibly a marker of poor allograft prognosis in pediatric patients.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

Pediatric transplantation - 24(2020), 5 vom: 10. Aug., Seite e13722

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Karava, Vasiliki [VerfasserIn]
Gakiopoulou, Hara [VerfasserIn]
Zampetoglou, Argyroula [VerfasserIn]
Marinaki, Smaragdi [VerfasserIn]
Havaki, Sofia [VerfasserIn]
Bitsori, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Stefanidis, Constantinos J [VerfasserIn]
Mitsioni, Andromach [VerfasserIn]

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Acute kidney injury
Antibody-mediated rejection
Case Reports
Crescents
Donor-specific antibodies
Pediatric kidney transplantation

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Date Completed 27.07.2021

Date Revised 27.07.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/petr.13722

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NLM310193478