A case of plasma cell-rich acute rejection 18 months after kidney transplantation successfully treated with steroid pulse therapy

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL. 19, 2008, Pages 58-61

  Shimizu, Tomokazu ^a   Ishida, Hideki ^a   Shirakawa, Hiroki ^a   Omoto, Kazuya ^a   Tanabe, Kazunari ^a   Yamaguchi, Yutaka ^b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute rejection; Kidney transplantation; Plasma cell rich rejection

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; CREATININE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RITUXIMAB; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; JAPANESE; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TUBULE DISORDER; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASMA CELL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY;

EID: 47949102399     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2008.00851.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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