NBME Step 2 CK Form 8 Allograft rejection (NBME Answers)

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NBME Step 2 CK Form 8 Answers

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Twelve days after undergoing an orthotopic ...
Allograft rejection 🔍 / 📺 / 🌳 / 📖
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Patient with recent liver transplant presents weeks later with fever, eosinophilia (in a patient taking prednisone where we would otherwise expect low eosinophils), elevated LFTs and a biopsy showing a mononuclear infiltrate with eosinophils in the hepatic triads, consistent with allograft rejection
Key idea: Graft eosinophilia is a sensitive and specific marker of acute rejection in liver allografts (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9724472)

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jmorga75 Also applies to renal rejection https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8081790/ +1

namesthegame22 Hours - 2 days = Hyperacute rejection < 6 months = acute rejection 6 months = chronic rejection +

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