Urinary chemokines CXCL9 and CXCL10 are noninvasive markers of renal allograft rejection and BK viral infection.
AuthorsJackson JA, Kim EJ, Begley B, Cheeseman J, Harden T, Perez SD, Thomas S, Warshaw B, Kirk AD,
JournalAm J Transplant
PubMed ID21812928
Renal transplant recipients require periodic surveillance for immune-based complications such as rejection and infection. Noninvasive monitoring methods are preferred, particularly for children, for whom invasive testing is problematic. We performed a cross-sectional analysis of adult and pediatric transplant recipients to determine whether a urine-based chemokine assay could noninvasively identify patients ... More