Reversal of acute renal allograft rejection by extracorporeal photopheresis: A case presentation and review of the literature

Journal of Clinical Apheresis

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 36-41

  Wolfe, Jonathan T ^a   Tomaszewski, John E ^a   Grossman, Robert A ^a   Gottlieb, Scott L ^a   Naji, All ^a   Brayman, Kenneth L ^a   Kobrin, Sydney M ^a   Rook, Alain H ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b 2 Jonathan Rhoads Pavilion ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

apheresis; cardiac transplantation; immunosuppressives; toxicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOMODULATION; KIDNEY GRAFT; PUVA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOPHERESIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0029984551     PISSN: 07332459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1101(1996)11:1<36::AID-JCA8>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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