%0 Journal Article %T Urinary transglutaminase 2 as a potent biomarker to predict interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy of kidney allograft during early posttransplant period in deceased donor kidney transplantation %A Duck Jong Han %A Heounjeong Go %A Hey Rim Jung %A Hyun Wook Kwon %A Jee Yeon Kim %A Ji Yoon Choi %A Joo Hee Jung %A Minkyu Han %A Monica Young Choi %A Sung Shin %A Yong Mee Cho %A Young Hoon Kim %A Yu-Mee Wee %J Archive of "Annals of Surgical Treatment and Research". %D 2019 %R 10.4174/astr.2019.97.1.27 %X Transglutaminase type 2 (TG2) is an extracellular matrix crosslinking enzyme with a pivotal role in kidney fibrosis. We tested whether quantification of urinary TG2 may represent a noninvasive method to estimate the severity of kidney allograft fibrosis %K Biomarkers %K Transglutaminase 2 %K Kidney transplantation %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6609414/