Renal transplant pathology: review and update

Renal transplant pathology forms an integral part of medical kidney diseases requiring a biopsy for diagnosis, prognosis and/or appropriate therapy. Often, multiple transplant biopsies are performed to monitor a disease process or efficacy of therapy. This short course will review and update all aspects of renal transplant pathology. Renal transplant biopsies of major diagnoses will be presented and used as a spring board for discussion of the subject area. Emphasis will be placed on new knowledge of disease classification, practical diagnostic approach, and novel pathogenetic mechanisms. Scanned light microscopic slides, immunofluorescent images, electron microscopic images and clinical summaries will be available on line for pre-meeting review. The covered topics include updated Banff Classification, acute T cell-mediated rejection, acute antibody-mediated rejection, chronic antibody-mediated rejection, transplant glomerulopathy, recurrent diseases, de novo diseases, BK virus nephropathy and other infections.