Link to Pubmed [PMID] – 18165770
Transplantation 2007 Dec;84(12):1595-601
Renal interstitial fibrosis (IF) is the main histopathological feature of chronic allograft injury. IF is currently assessed by semiquantitative analysis, but automatic color image analysis may be more reliable and reproducible. We performed a retrospective analysis to calculate IF on routine renal biopsies performed at 1 year posttransplant.