Immunological profile of patients awaiting a renal transplant

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 529-535

  Díaz, Inmaculada ^a   Sánchez, Pilar ^b   Alonso, Clara ^b   Valdés, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL JUAN CANALEJO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Human leucocyte antigen; Panel of human lymphocyte; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIBODY; HLA ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SCREENING; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; SEROLOGY; SPAIN; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HLA ANTIGENS; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 4644255984     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2004.00205.x     Document Type: Article

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