On-demand strategy as an alternative to conventionally scheduled post-transplant immunoadsorptions after ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3048-3051

  Wilpert, Jochen ^a,b   Geyer, Marcel ^a   Pisarski, Przemyslaw ^a   Drognitz, Oliver ^a   Schulz Huotari, Christian ^a   Gropp, Anette ^a   Goebel, Heike ^a   Gerke, Peter ^a   Teschner, Sven ^a   Walz, Gerd ^a   Donauer, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Renal Division   (Germany)

Author keywords

ABO incompatible; IgG titer; Immunoadsorption; Indirect antiglobulin test; Kidney transplantation

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOADSORPTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ADSORPTION; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOSORBENT TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK;

EID: 36049018025     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm460     Document Type: Article

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