The role of immunomodulation in ABO-incompatible adult liver transplant recipients

Journal of Clinical Apheresis

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 55-62

  Urbani, Lucio ^a   Mazzoni, Alessandro ^a   Bianco, Irene ^a   Grazzini, Tiziana ^a   De Simone, Paolo ^a   Catalano, Gabriele ^a   Montin, Umberto ^a   Petruccelli, Stefanie ^a   Morelli, Luca ^a   Campani, Daniela ^a   Pollina, Luca ^a   Biancofiore, Gianni ^a   Bindi, Lucia ^a   Tascini, Carlo ^a   Menichetti, Francesco ^a   Scatena, Fabrizio ^a   Filipponi, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

ABO incompatible; Antibody mediated rejection; ECP; IVIG; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BASILIXIMAB; CD3 ANTIBODY; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MURONOMAB; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EXTRACORPOREAL PHOTOPHERESIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ISCHEMIA; LEUKAPHERESIS; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PROPHYLAXIS; PUVA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ADULT; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOPHERESIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 43249120818     PISSN: 07332459     EISSN: 10981101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jca.20156     Document Type: Article

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