Vascular lesions in human allotransplantated kidneys |
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Authors: | Pavel Rossmann Ivana Reneltová Prokop Málek Jan Brod Jiří Jirka |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute for Cardiovascular Research, and Transplantation Centre at the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Surgery, Praha — Kr, Czechoslovakia |
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Abstract: | Summary Sixteen patients with allotransplanted kidneys were examined by biopsy or autopsy during the last four years. In 5 patients there was conspicuous stenosis or occlusion of the cortical arteries and arterioles; in 4, the major interlobar muscular arteries were also involved. The vascular lumen was stenosed by hyaline deposits and edematous intimal thickening containing abundant erythrocytes, foam cells, and various mononuclear cells. In contrast, no striking thrombosis was present and fibrinoid deposits were scarce. The ultrastructure showed signs of a severe degeneration of both muscular and endothelial cells and an accumulation of cell fragments and debris but no fibrin or preserved blood platelets. In major muscular arteries there were dystrophic changes in the deep intima and media; in the subendothelial region muscular cells (newly formed?) preponderated. In the remaining eleven patients the arteries were normal or showed moderate hyaline and fibroelastic arterio-arteriolosclerosis.A severe obliterating arterio(lo) pathy (OA) means a grave prognosis, pointing to manifest or imminent renal insufficiency and forecasting the necessity of transplantectomy within a few months. The patients free of OA constitute a clinico-functionally nonhomogenous group, biopsies being performed for various reasons at various posttransplantation intervals; the average prognosis, however, is considerably more favourable. The pathogenesis of OA remains unclear as yet; the lesion offers, however, a rather striking morphological picture different from those of common arteriosclerotic and arteritic lesions.
Zusammenfassung Im hiesigen Transplantationszentrum wurden in den letzten 4 Jahren 16 nierenallotransplantierte Patienten biopisch und/oder nekroptisch untersucht. In 5 Fällen fand sich eine schwere Stenose mit teilweiser Obliteration von corticalen Arterien und Arteriolen, der gleiche Befund in 4 Fällen auch an größeren interlobären Muskelarterien. Das Lumen der alterierten Gefäße zeigt jeweils eine hyalin und ödematös verquollene, von Erythrocyten, Schaumzellen und mononukleären Zellen durchsetzte Intimaschicht. Eine Thrombose oder Fibrinoidablagerungen werden selten oder gar nicht nachweisbar. Mikroskopisch finden sich schwere Endothel- und Muskelzelldegenerationen sowie eine Anhäufung von Zellfragmenten und Trümmerzonen. Dagegen werden Fibrin und intakte Blutplättchen vermißt. Größere Muskelarterien weisen eine schwere Dystrophie ihrer tiefen Intima- und Mediaschichten auf, im subendothelialen Raum überwiegen neugebildete Muskelzellen. — Die Nierenarterien und -arteriolen der übrigen 11 Patienten waren im wesentlichen gut erhalten. Sie zeigten lediglich eine diskrete bis mittelschwere hyaline bzw. fibroelastische Arterio-Arteriolosklerose.
Dedicated to the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Antonín Fingerland, DrSc., Hradec Králové, Czechoslovakia. |
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