Despite a decreased incidence and severity of acute rejections in 1998, compared with the previous years, acute rejection still remains a powerful risk factor for late transplant failure.

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Creeping proteinuria during the first year was associated with long-term graft failure and mortality and could be considered as a surrogate of kidney disease progression in the renal transplant population, as it is in proteinuric nephropathies. It could also be viewed as an expression of immunological damage.