BK virus in heart transplant recipients: A prospective study
✍ Scribed by Belén Loeches; Maricela Valerio; Jesús Palomo; Emilio Bouza; Patricia Muñoz
- Book ID
- 116522776
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 161 KB
- Volume
- 30
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1557-3117
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## Abstract Polyomavirus BK (BKV) is a common human polyomavirus that rarely causes clinical symptoms in immunocompetent individuals. However, BK virus reactivation occurs in 20–40% of kidney transplant patients and 1–10% of cases present with BK virus‐associated nephropathy (BKVN) and reduced kidn
The following sentences from the article abstract are corrected as follows: BKVN was confirmed histologically in 3/120 patients and viremic patients were treated with dialysis for longer time periods and had higher levels of panel reactive antibodies. In conclusion, polyoma BK viremia and viruria