A new study by WU researchers is one of the largest to simultaneously evaluate 10-year outcomes in three important areas of kidney transplantation: calcineurin inhibitor-based immunosuppression, polyomavirus reactivation, and immune responses to kidney-specific self-antigens fibronectin (FN) and collagen type-IV (Col-IV). The study, headed by Daniel C. Brennan, MD, FACP, Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff […]
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Battling the Viral Hydra – Brennan Guest Editor of Seminars in Nephrology Issue on Kidney Transplantation and Viral Infection
Dan Brennan, MD, Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Renal Diseases, likens the fight against viruses in the kidney transplant patient to a mythological battle. “Just when we think we are beginning to understand one of these viruses, when we have cut off one of the heads of the viral Hydra, then two […]