Alloimmunization to red cell antigens in liver and multivisceral transplant patients

Transplantation

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 527-531

  Shariatmadar, Sherry ^a   Pyrsopoulos, Nikolaos T ^a   Vincek, Vladimir ^a   Noto, Thomas A ^a   Tzakis, Andreas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood transfusion; Liver transplantation; Multivisceral transplantation; RBC alloantibodies

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROCYTE ANTIGEN; RHESUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOIMMUNIZATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINES; ISOANTIBODIES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; VISCERA;

EID: 34548167101     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000278093.58340.fb     Document Type: Article

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