Design and Methods of the Validating Injury to the Renal Transplant Using Urinary Signatures (VIRTUUS) Study in Children

Background. Lack of noninvasive diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers to reliably detect early allograft injury poses a major hindrance to long-term allograft survival in pediatric kidney transplant recipients. Methods. Validating Injury to the Renal Transplant Using Urinary Signatures Children’s Stu...

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Main Authors: Juhi Kumar, MD, MPH, Kévin Contrepois, PhD, Michael Snyder, PhD, Paul C. Grimm, MD, Asha Moudgil, MD, Jodi M. Smith, MD, Amy E. Bobrowski, MD, MS, Priya S. Verghese, MBBS, MPH, David Hooper, MD, Elizabeth Ingulli, MD, Rachel Lestz, MD, MHS, Patricia Weng, MD, Janaiya L. Reason, MPH, Tom D. Blydt-Hansen, MDCM, Manikkam Suthanthiran, MD, Brendan Keating, PhD, Sandra Amaral, MD, MHS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2021-12-01
Series:Transplantation Direct
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/transplantationdirect/fulltext/10.1097/TXD.0000000000001244