High PIRCHE Scores May Allow Risk Stratification of Borderline Rejection in Kidney Transplant Recipients

By: Ekaterina Lezoeva, Jakob Nilsson, Rudolf Wüthrich, Thomas F. Mueller, Thomas Schachtner

Published: in Frontiers in Immunology 2022; 13:788818. 

Patients: 60

Highlights:

• identified 60 borderline rejection kidney transplant recipients
• PIRCHE scores significantly elevated in patients with borderline rejection
• PIRCHE scores significantly elevated in patients who developed TCMR/ABMR