Use of rituximab to decrease panel-reactive antibodies

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 628-630

  Balfour, Ian C ^a   Fiore, Andrew ^b   Graff, Ralph J ^b   Knutsen, Alan P ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; HLA A1 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PARACETAMOL; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; TACROLIMUS;

ALLOGRAFT; ANTIBODY SCREENING; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CROSS REACTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART SURGERY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LUNG ATRESIA; MALE; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD;

ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MALE; REOPERATION;

EID: 18844436514     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2004.01.006     Document Type: Article

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