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    Proximal tubular dysfunction as an indicator of chronic graft dysfunction
    (Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica, 2009-03-01) Câmara, Niels Olsen Saraiva [UNIFESP]; Williams Jr., W.w.; Pacheco-Silva, Alvaro [UNIFESP]; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP); Harvard University Massachusetts General Hospital; Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Hospital Albert Einstein Unidade de Transplante Renal
    New strategies are being devised to limit the impact of renal sclerosis on graft function. Individualization of immunosuppression, specifically the interruption of calcineurin-inhibitors has been tried in order to promote better graft survival once chronic graft dysfunction has been established. However, the long-term impact of these approaches is still not totally clear. Nevertheless, patients at higher risk for tubular atrophy and interstitial fibrosis (TA/IF) development should be carefully monitored for tubular function as well as glomerular performance. Since tubular-interstitial impairment is an early event in TA/IF pathogenesis and associated with graft function, it seems reasonable that strategies directed at assessing tubular structural integrity and function would yield important functional and prognostic data. The measurement of small proteins in urine such as α-1-microglobulin, N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase, alpha/pi S-glutathione transferases, β-2 microglobulin, and retinol binding protein is associated with proximal tubular cell dysfunction. Therefore, its straightforward assessment could provide a powerful tool in patient monitoring and ongoing clinical assessment of graft function, ultimately helping to facilitate longer patient and graft survival associated with good graft function.