Data-Driven Chronic Allograft Phenotypes: A Novel and Validated Complement for Histologic Assessment of Kidney Transplant Biopsies.

Thibaut VauletGillian DivardOlivier ThaunatPriyanka KoshyEvelyne LerutAleksandar SenevOlivier AubertElisabet Van LoonJasper CallemeynMarie-Paule EmondsAmaryllis H Van CraenenbroeckKatrien De VusserBen SprangersMaud RabeyrinValérie DuboisDirk R J KuypersMaarten De VosAlexandre LoupyBart De MoorMaarten Naesens
Published in: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN (2022)
The evaluation of total chronicity provides information on kidney transplant pathology that complements the estimation of disease activity from acute lesion scores. Use of the data-driven algorithm used in this study, called RejectClass, may provide a holistic and quantitative assessment of kidney transplant injury phenotypes and severity.