Removal of anti-A/B antibodies for successful kidney transplantation between ABO blood type incompatible couples

Transfusion Science

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 455-462

  Tanabe, Kazunari ^a   Takahash, Kota ^b   Agishi, Tetsuzo ^a   Toma, Hiroshi ^a   Ota, Kazuo ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

15 DEOXYSPERGUALIN; AZATHIOPRINE; BLOOD GROUP ANTIBODY; CYCLOSPORIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ANTIBODY TITER; BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOADSORPTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGAN DONOR; PLASMAPHERESIS; REVIEW; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0347140186     PISSN: 09553886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0955-3886(96)00029-X     Document Type: Article

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