Expansion of humoral donor-specific alloreactivity after renal transplantation correlates with impaired graft outcome

Human Immunology

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 985-988

  Varnavidou Nicolaidou, Agathi ^a,e   Iniotaki Theodoraki, Aliki G ^b   Doxiadis, Ilias I N ^c   Georgiou, Dora ^a   Patargias, Theocharis ^d   Stavropoulos Giokas, Catherine ^b   Kyriakides, George ^a  

^a Paraskevaidion Surgical and Transplant Center Nicosia   (Cyprus)

^b KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e Paraskevaidion Surgical and Transplant Center ^*  (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Alloexpansion; Graft outcome; HLA antidonor antibodies; HLA DQ directed antibodies; Transplant monitoring

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DONOR SPECIFIC ANTIBODY; HLA ANTIBODY; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOIMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA-D ANTIGENS; HUMANS; ISOANTIBODIES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 29044447324     PISSN: 01988859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humimm.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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