Successful Second Kidney Transplantation in a Patient with Focal Glomerulosclerosis

Vol. 5, No. 4, 1985

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Case Report

Successful Second Kidney Transplantation in a Patient with Focal Glomerulosclerosis
A Case Report
Jeffrey Hosenpud, Walter F. Piering, John C. Garancis, Myron Kauffman

Departments of Medicine and Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisc., USA

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Am J Nephrol 1985;5:299-304 (DOI: 10.1159/000166952)

Key Words

Focal glomerulosclerosis
Kidney transplantation
Nephrotic syndrome
Nephrosis

Abstract

We report a woman who developed renal failure due to focal glomerulosclerosis (FGS). This disease recurred immediately in a kidney transplant from her brother resulting in removal of that graft. She subsequently received a cadaver kidney transplant, and FGS has not recurred after 24 months. This is the first report of nonrecurrence in a second kidney graft, when the first was lost due to recurrent FGS. Whether timing or tissue typing of the second graft in relationship to the first is important is not known. Recurrence of FGS in a first kidney graft should not, however, preclude future transplantation.

Author Contacts

Walter F. Piering, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, 9200 West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53226 (USA)

Article Information

Received: April 5, 1983
Accepted: April 30, 1984
Published online: October 24, 2008
Number of Print Pages : 6

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