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Abstract
Glomerulonephritis is the underlying cause of end-stage renal failure in 20%-40% of kidney transplant recipients. These patients are at risk of the recurrence of their original diseases. . Published data suggest that recurrent GN occurs in 6 to 19.4% of all renal transplant recipients, largely dependent on the time of assessment after transplantation, and causes the loss of 1.1 to 4.4% of all renal allograft.
Graft loss due to recurrent GN was the third most frequent cause for graft loss 10 years after kidney transplantation. As the overall duration of graft survival has improved in the last years due to decline in graft loss caused by rejection, the incidence of graft loss caused by recurrent disease paradoxically has increased.