ArticleJournal of transplantation2014
Ureteral Stent Placement Increases the Risk for Developing BK Viremia after Kidney Transplantation.
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- Management of Surgical Complications in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- BK Nephropathy in the Modern Era: What Have We Learned?Kidney360 · 2025Review
- Prolonged Prophylactic Ureteral Stent Placement and BK Polyomavirus Infection After Renal Transplantation-A Retrospective Case-control Study.European urology open science · 2025Article
- Development of BK polyomavirus-associated nephropathy risk prediction in kidney transplant recipients.Renal failure · 2025Article
- Successful treatment of BK virus-associated severe hemorrhagic cystitis with bilateral single-J ureteral stenting.IJU case reports · 2022Article
- Pearls and Pitfalls in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation After 5 Decades.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- The impact of prophylactic ureteral stenting during kidney transplantation on postoperative surgical outcomes.Korean journal of transplantation · 2021Article
- Pathogenicity of BK virus on the urinary system.Central European journal of urology · 2020Review
- BK Polyomavirus Virus Glomerular Tropism: Implications for Virus Reactivation from Latency and Amplification during Immunosuppression.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Review
- Prediction of Early BK Virus Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients by the Number of Cells With Intranuclear Inclusion Bodies (Decoy Cells).Transplantation direct · 2018Article
- Ureteral stent placement and immediate graft function are associated with increased risk of BK viremia in the first year after kidney transplantation.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2017Article
- A Preliminary Study Into the Significance of Intrarenal Reflux in BK Virus Nephropathy After Kidney Transplantation.Transplantation direct · 2016Article
- Comparison of anti-reflux mechanism between Double-J-Stent and standart Double-J-Stent use for risk of BK nephropathy and urinary tract Infection in kidney transplantation.International journal of clinical and experimental medicine · 2015Article
- Native BK Polyomavirus Nephropathy in an Orthotopic Heart Transplant Patient.Journal of investigative medicine high impact case reportsArticle
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Abstract
The placement of ureteral stent (UrSt) at kidney transplantation reduces major urological complications but increases the risk for developing nephropathy from the BK virus. It is unclear whether UrSt placement increases nephropathy risk by increasing risk of precursor viral replication or by other mechanisms. We retrospectively investigated whether UrSt placement increased the risk for developing BK Viremia (BKVM) in adult and pediatric kidney transplants performed at the University of Florida between July 1, 2007, and December 31, 2010. In this period all recipients underwent prospective BKV PCR monitoring and were maintained on similar immunosuppression. Stent placement or not was based on surgeon preference. In 621 transplants, UrSt were placed in 295 (47.5%). BKVM was seen in 22% versus 16% without UrSt (P = 0.05). In multivariate analyses, adjusting for multiple transplant covariates, only UrSt placement remained significantly associated with BKVM (P = 0.04). UrSt placement significantly increased the risk for BKVM. Routine UrSt placement needs to be revaluated, since benefits may be negated by the need for more BK PCR testing and potential for graft survival-affecting nephritis.
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