The role of flow cytometry-detected IgG and IgM anti-donor antibodies in cardiac allograft recipients

Transplantation

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 258-262

  Przybylowski, Piotr ^a,b   Balogna, Marco ^b   Radovancevic, Branislav ^b   Frazier, O Howard ^b   Susskind, Brian ^a   Van Buren, Charles ^a   Katz, Stephen ^a   Kahan, Barry D ^a   Kerman, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; ISOANTIBODIES; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0033608072     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199901270-00012     Document Type: Article

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