ABO-incompatible transplantation - A safe way to perform renal transplantation?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-27

  Beimler, Jörg ^a   Zeier, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ABO incompatible renal transplantation; Desensitization; Immunoadsorption; Living kidney donation; Plasmapheresis; Rituximab

Indexed keywords

15 DEOXYSPERGUALIN; ANTIMETABOLITE; AZATHIOPRINE; BASILIXIMAB; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DACLIZUMAB; HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; HYPERACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOADSORPTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; NOTE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPLENECTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; JAPAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; PLASMAPHERESIS; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846030167     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl557     Document Type: Note

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