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Despite impacting an estimated 850 million people and being responsible for 1 in 60 deaths worldwide, few treatments are available for chronic kidney disease.
Urine Test Helps Detect Kidney Transplant Rejection by Karishma Abhishek on March 9, 2021 at 8:23 AM
Twenty percent of patients experience kidney transplant rejection even after a long waiting time till 6years. The recipient s immune cells recognize the newly received kidney as a foreign organ and thus on refusing the acceptance of the donor s antigens, results in transplant rejection. invasive biopsy procedures, (that requires multiple days of hospitalization and risks of complications) or creatinine blood tests (do not always yield definitive results). Moreover 70-80 percent of biopsies end up being normal.
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