Affiliation:
1. Departments of Surgery and Radiology, University of Leicester, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester, UK
Abstract
Abstract
Measurement of the cross-sectional area of the transplanted kidney with ultrasound has been used to differentiate between cyclosporin A toxicity and rejection both in the immediate post-transplant period and at the time of conversion from cyclosporin A to azathioprine. Of 40 patients studied 21 have been converted from cyclosporin A to azathioprine. There were 12 rejection episodes in 9 patients in the early post-transplant period, and 7 rejection episodes in 7 patients at the time of conversion from cyclosporin A to azathioprine. All of these episodes were correctly diagnosed by ultrasound. Eight episodes of drug induced toxicity in seven patients were, in all but one case, diagnosed correctly. In only 8 of the 19 rejection episodes was the diagnosis suspected clinically at the time ultrasound detected an increase in cross-sectional area.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
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