The Banff 2015 Kidney Meeting Report: Current Challenges in Rejection Classification and Prospects for Adopting Molecular Pathology
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The XIII Banff meeting, held in conjunction the Canadian Society of Transplantation in Vancouver, Canada, reviewed the clinical impact of updates of C4d‐negative antibody‐mediated rejection (ABMR) from the 2013 meeting, reports from active Banff Working Groups, the relationships of donor‐specific antibody tests (anti‐HLA and non‐HLA) with transplant histopathology, and questions of molecular transplant diagnostics. The use of transcriptome gene sets, their resultant diagnostic classifiers, or common key genes to supplement the diagnosis and classification of rejection requires further consensus agreement and validation in biopsies. Newly introduced concepts include the i‐IFTA score, comprising inflammation within areas of fibrosis and atrophy and acceptance of transplant arteriolopathy within the descriptions of chronic active T cell–mediated rejection (TCMR) or chronic ABMR. The pattern of mixed TCMR and ABMR was increasingly recognized. This report also includes improved definitions of TCMR and ABMR in pancreas transplants with specification of vascular lesions and prospects for defining a vascularized composite allograft rejection classification. The goal of the Banff process is ongoing integration of advances in histologic, serologic, and molecular diagnostic techniques to produce a consensus‐based reporting system that offers precise composite scores, accurate routine diagnostics, and applicability to next‐generation clinical trials.
Date Issued
2017-01-01
Date Acceptance
2016-10-28
Citation
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION, 2017, 17 (1), pp.28-41
ISSN
1600-6135
Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
Start Page
28
End Page
41
Journal / Book Title
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION
Volume
17
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© 2016 The Authors. American Journal of Transplantation published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Society of Transplant SurgeonsThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits use and distribution in any
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Sponsor
Roche Organ Transplant Research Foundation
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n/a
Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Surgery
Transplantation
clinical research
practice
translational research
science
kidney transplantation
nephrology
pathology
histopathology
organ transplantation in general
rejection
rejection: antibody-mediated (ABMR)
rejection: subclinical
rejection: T cell mediated (TCMR)
ANTIBODY-MEDIATED REJECTION
DONOR-SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES
TRANSPLANTATION BIFQUIT REPRODUCIBILITY
RENAL-ALLOGRAFT REJECTION
NON-HLA ANTIBODIES
MICROARRAY DIAGNOSIS
COMPLEMENT-BINDING
QUALITY-ASSURANCE
GRAFT FAILURE
BIOPSIES
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2016-11-10