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Cosner D, Zeng X, Zhang PL. Proximal Tubular Injury in Medullary Rays Is an Early Sign of Acute Tacrolimus Nephrotoxicity. J Transplant. 2015;2015:142521doi: 10.1155/2015/142521.
Cosner, D., Zeng, X., & Zhang, P. L. (2015). Proximal Tubular Injury in Medullary Rays Is an Early Sign of Acute Tacrolimus Nephrotoxicity. Journal of transplantation, 2015142521. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/142521
Cosner, Diane, et al. "Proximal Tubular Injury in Medullary Rays Is an Early Sign of Acute Tacrolimus Nephrotoxicity." Journal of transplantation vol. 2015 (2015): 142521. doi: https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/142521
Cosner D, Zeng X, Zhang PL. Proximal Tubular Injury in Medullary Rays Is an Early Sign of Acute Tacrolimus Nephrotoxicity. J Transplant. 2015;2015:142521. doi: 10.1155/2015/142521. Epub 2015 Jun 24. PMID: 26199736; PMCID: PMC4495174.
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J Transplant. 2015;2015:142521. doi: 10.1155/2015/142521. Epub 2015 Jun 24.

Proximal Tubular Injury in Medullary Rays Is an Early Sign of Acute Tacrolimus Nephrotoxicity.

Journal of transplantation

Diane Cosner, Xu Zeng, Ping L Zhang

Affiliations

  1. Department of Anatomic Pathology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA.
  2. Department of Pathology, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA.

PMID: 26199736 PMCID: PMC4495174 DOI: 10.1155/2015/142521

Abstract

Tacrolimus (FK506) is one of the principal immunosuppressive agents used after solid organ transplantations to prevent allograft rejection. Chronic renal injury induced by tacrolimus is characterized by linear fibrosis in the medullary rays; however, the early morphologic findings of acute tacrolimus nephrotoxicity are not well characterized. Kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1) is a specific injury biomarker that has been proven to be useful in the diagnosis of mild to severe acute tubular injury on renal biopsies. This study was motivated by a patient with acute kidney injury associated with elevated serum tacrolimus levels in whom KIM-1 staining was present only in proximal tubules located in the medullary rays in the setting of otherwise normal light, immunofluorescent, and electron microscopy. We subsequently evaluated KIM-1 expression in 45 protocol and 39 indicated renal transplant biopsies to determine whether higher serum levels of tacrolimus were associated with acute segment specific injury to the proximal tubule, as reflected by KIM-1 staining in the proximal tubules of the cortical medullary rays. The data suggest that tacrolimus toxicity preferentially affects proximal tubules in medullary rays and that this targeted injury is a precursor lesion for the linear fibrosis seen in chronic tacrolimus toxicity.

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