Equal overall rejection rate in pre-transplant flow-cytometric cross-match negative and positive adult recipients in liver transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 626-631

  Matinlauri, Irma H ^a   Höckerstedt, Krister A ^b   Isoniemi, Helena M ^b  

^a Red Cross Finland   (Finland)

^b Surgical Hospital   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cross matching; Flow cytometry; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OKT 3; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; CADAVER DONOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTOTOXICITY; MALE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPLEEN CELL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TIME;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 25144462169     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2005.00364.x     Document Type: Article

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