C4D Deposition and Positive Posttransplant Crossmatch Are Not Necessarily Markers of Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Renal Allograft Recipients

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2718-2720

  Banasik, M ^a   Boratynska M ^a   Nowakowska, B ^b   Halon A ^a   Koscielska Kasprzak K ^a   Drulis Fajdasz, D ^a   Patrzalek D ^a   Weyde, W ^a   Klinger, M ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4D;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT DEPENDENT CYTOTOXICITY; COMPLEMENT DEPOSITION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CADAVER; COMPLEMENT C4B; CREATININE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; ISOANTIBODIES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 36049001854     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.08.064     Document Type: Article

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