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What is your approach to managing a kidney transplant patient who develops BK viremia after treatment for rejection?

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This is always a challenging situation. First, I decrease the mycophenolate, typically by 50%. Some of my management depends on whether the rejection was antibody mediated vs cellular, and how high the BK viral load is. If there was antibody mediated, I prefer to maintain some mycophenolate, if poss...

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