Successful ABO Incompatible Living Donor Liver Transplantation in a Patient With High Isoagglutinin Titer Using High-Dose Intravenous Immunoglobulin

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3491-3494

  Ikegami, T ^a   Taketomi, A ^a   Soejima, Y ^a   Iguchi, T ^a   Sanefuji, K ^a   Kayashima, H ^a   Yoshizumi, T ^a   Harada, N ^a   Maehara, Y ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; CD20 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; CASE REPORT; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGGLUTININS; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37049032513     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.09.028     Document Type: Article

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