Transplant glomerulopathy may occur in the absence of donor-specific antibody and C4d staining

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1261-1267

  Akalin, Enver ^a   Dinavahi, Rajani ^a   Dikman, Steven ^a   de Boccardo, Graciela ^a,c   Friedlander, Rex ^b   Schroppel, Bernd ^a   Sehgal, Vinita ^a   Bromberg, Jonathan S ^a   Heeger, Peter ^a   Murphy, Barbara ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROGOSIN INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIBODY; COMPLEMENT C4D; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4B; HLA ANTIGEN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DONOR; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STAINING;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLEMENT C4B; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; ISOANTIBODIES; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 38449093287     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.02420607     Document Type: Article

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