Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) as screening method for anti-paternal allo-antibodies in patients with recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL)

European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 155-159

  Rogenhofer, Nina ^a   Toth, Bettina ^a   Kiessig, Stephan ^b   Hellstern, Peter ^c   Taborski, Uwe ^b   Scholz, Siegfried ^a   Thaler, Christian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b German Association for Humanplasma   (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM LUDWIGSHAFEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abortion; Anti paternal antibodies; Cytometric crossmatch; ELISA; FCXM; Miscarriage; One Lambda Test; Recurrent pregnancy loss

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIBODY; PATERNAL ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIBODY SCREENING; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRIC CROSS MATCH; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONE LAMBDA ANTIGEN TRAY TEST; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RECURRENT PREGNANCY LOSS;

EID: 38649126175     PISSN: 03012115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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