ABSTRACT
A total of 64 renal graft biopsies performed on 44 transplant patients from among 116 transplants (12 from living donors, 104 from cadavers) were analyzed during the period from July 1983 to December 1990. The frequency of allograft glomerular disease was 22.7% (10/44). Membranous glomerulonephritis (MGN) was detected in five patients; focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), in two; transplant glomerulopathy, in two; and IgA nephropathy, in one. Nephrotic syndrome occurred in nine of the ten patients. Progressive deterioration of graft function developed in four patients associated with chronic rejection, and two of them later lost the graft. The remaining six patients had no chronic rejection and retained a stable renal condition with one exception, a patient who suffered from acute total occlusion of the right internal iliac artery and who eventually lost the graft. It is concluded that MGN is the most common allograft glomerular disease, but the outcome of the graft is probably related to the coexistent chronic rejection.
