Agarwal D K, Hota J K, Malhotra V
Dept. of Nephrology, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi.
J Assoc Physicians India. 2011 Aug;59:524-6.
Diagnosis and management of acute renal allograft dysfunction often pose challenge to nephrologists during practice. Acute rejection is a major cause of acute graft dysfunction but is rare in patients with leucopenia. Acute rejection can have either humoral or cellular components or sometimes mixed components. Mixed acute cellular and humoral rejection often present as steroid resistant rejection. Here we report a patient with live related renal transplant recipient with acute graft dysfunction with leucopenia who was found to have mixed acute cellular and humoral rejection.
