Abstract

perform a clinicopathological study of patients having renal biopsies after liver transplantation. Design Case series. Setting Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong. Patients All post–liver transplantation patients who had a renal biopsy in the period from January 2000 to December 2010. Results Eleven renal biopsies were retrieved for review from 10 patients with liver transplantation. The male-to-female ratio was 9:1 (age range, 47-63 years). The median liver transplant–to–renal biopsy interval was 1590 (range, 102-3699) days. The predominant histological changes were interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy. Diabetic nephropathy (n=6) and immunoglobulin A nephropathy (n=4) were the commonest glomerulopathies. Only one patient had chronic calcineurin inhibitor nephrotoxicity. With a mean follow-up of 53 months, three patients died 2 to 53 months