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TPIS Presentation Case   Selected Links This 26 year old male received a living related kidney allograft approximately 18 months earlier for relief of sickle cell nephropathy. He had been maintained on Tacrolimus and was recently admitted for a rise in creatinine to 1.9 from the usual baseline of 1.3. Representative photomicrographs and case discussion are presented here with access to whole slide digital images here   Liver Acute Rejection- RAI Chronic Rejection Modified HAI Autoimmune hepatitis NASH/NAFLD scoring Liver Tumor Staging Kidney Banff components Banff scores EM photos Creatinine clearance Heart  (Updated) Rejection Grading Pancreas Rejection Grading Lung  (Updated) Rejection Grading Intestines Rejection Grading Skin/Composite Rejection Grading  (NEW) PTLD Grading System Administrative Use Codes CME TPIS News For access to Continuing Medical Education credits from the May 7-8 2010 Surgical Pathology of Organ Transplantation Conference held at UPMC please contact Jill March, UPMC Montefiore, Division of Transplantation Pathology,(412) 647-9509, marchjk@upmc.edu Weblog updated for user information 12/12/07. TPIS successfully reviewed for HIPAA compliance and placed back online 6/5/07. New Scoring System for non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) added 3/7/06. Updated Cardiac Allograft Rejection Grading Schema added (08/14/2009) Video presentations of Liver Pathology Sessions from the Eighth Banff Conference on Allograft Pathology, July 15-21 2005, The Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, Edmonton, AB Canada, are now available on TPIS (7/26/05). Staging System for Intrahepatic Tumors (Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Cholangiocarcinoma) added (see right-hand frame) (6/2/05) TPIS is the #1 search returned for "Transplant Pathology" for both Google and Yahoo. Thank you to our users for making this possible! (3/10/10) Case Conference Module is upgraded to provide more interactive features. Templates to aid in the microscopic descriptions of Allograft Liver, Kidney, Heart, and Small Bowel biopsies in both HTML and printable (.pdf) forms added. (These are accessible through the Scoring Systems link on this page). New Banff Schema for Chronic Liver Allograft Rejection Added Download Updated HLA Matchmaker Software by Rene Duquesnoy, Ph.D.

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