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Thibaut Vaulet¹, Olivier Thaunat^{2

3}, Maarten Naesens^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ ESAT Stadius Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
² Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM; French National Institutes of Health and Medical Research) Unit 1111, Lyon, France.
³ Department of Transplantation, Nephrology and Clinical Immunology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France.
⁴ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁵ Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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Thibaut Vaulet et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2021 Sep.

. 2021 Sep;32(9):2388-2389.

doi: 10.1681/ASN.2021060796. Epub 2021 Aug 16.

Thibaut Vaulet¹, Olivier Thaunat^{2

3}, Maarten Naesens^{4

5}

¹ ESAT Stadius Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
² Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM; French National Institutes of Health and Medical Research) Unit 1111, Lyon, France.
³ Department of Transplantation, Nephrology and Clinical Immunology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France.
⁴ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁵ Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

No abstract available

Keywords: acute allograft rejection; chronic allograft rejection; histopathology; rejection; survival; transplantation.

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