Renal pathology at autopsy in patients who died after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Acute and chronic renal dysfunction are common after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Although the pathology of chronic HSCT nephropathy is well described, the histologic changes that accompany acute renal dysfunction after HSCT are less well known because renal biopsies are rarely undertaken in the peritransplantation period. Archival renal tissue from consecutive HSCT recipients who died and underwent autopsy at a single center …