Prevalence of Transfusion-transmitted Virus (TTV) Infection and its Association with Renal Posttransplantation Complications in Iran

[...]we studied the association between TTV infection with different characteristics of the patients including the extent of HLA mismatch, glomerular filtration rate (GFR), the rate of creatinine, and having family relation with donor. [...]the choice of primers used in the PCR reaction, to identify the presence of TTV, can strongly affect the level of its detection in biological fluids. [...]in the case of drugs used, it seems that tacrolimus in better option compared to cyclosporine according to TTV infection. [...]given that about one-third of Iranian renal transplant recipients are infected with TTV, our results should be confirmed by other multicenter studies.