Review article
https://doi.org/10.21860/medflum2020_245227
The Banff classification of renal allograft pathology
Gordana Đorđević
; Klinički zavod za patologiju i citologiju, KBC Rijeka i Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Danica Galešić Ljubanović
; Odjel za nefropatologiju i elektronsku mikroskopiju, Klinički zavod za patologiju i citologiju, KB Dubrava i Zavod za patologiju, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Until the early 1990s, there was no standardized international classification of the renal allograft biopsies resulting in significant heterogeneity of biopsy findings between different centres. A group of nephropathologists, nephrologists and surgeons developed in Banff (Alberta, Canada) in 1991 the first classification system (the so-called Banff classification) which provided guidelines for the pathohistological and clinical diagnosis and enabled meaningful comparisons between research and clinical studies for diagnosis, treatment and outcome of the renal allograft pathology. The aim of this article is to present the Banff classification through its history from the beginnings to the recent reports. The diagnostic assessment of the kidney allograft pathology has been greatly improved, quantified, and clinically proven but many issues remain to be studied. Current recommendations are further clinically validated and the report and new topics will be discussed at the jubilee meeting in 2021 in Banff, the city from which the Banff classification originates.
Keywords
Banff classification; kidney transplantation; transplant rejection
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245227
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Publication date:
1.12.2020.
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