Therapy with plasmapheresis and intravenous immunoglobulin for acute humoral rejection in kidney transplantation

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3743-3745

  Ibernon M ^a   Gil Vernet, S ^a   Carrera, M ^a   Seron D ^a   Moreso, F ^a   Bestard, O ^a   Cruzado, J M ^a   Grinyo J M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RITUXIMAB; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TUBULE PRESSURE; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBODY FORMATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMAPHERESIS; PROGNOSIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 29544447059     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2005.09.128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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