Rescue Therapy by Immunoadsorption in Combination With Tacrolimus and Mycophenolate Mofetil for C4d-Positive Acute Humoral Renal Allograft Rejection

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3459-3463

  Ji, S M ^a   Liu, Z H ^b   Chen, J S ^a   Sha, G Z ^a   Ji, D X ^a   Li, L S ^b  

^a JINLING HOSPITAL   (China)

^b MEDICAL SCHOOL OF NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4D; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CADAVER KIDNEY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOADSORPTION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTIBODY FORMATION; COMPLEMENT C4B; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSORBENT TECHNIQUES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; REOPERATION; TACROLIMUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 33845441546     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.10.151     Document Type: Article

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