Application of flow cytometry to monitor antibody levels in ABO incompatible kidney transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 474-477

  Krishnan, Nithya S ^a,b   Fleetwood, Paul ^c   Higgins, Robert M ^a   Hathaway, Mark ^b   Zehnder, Daniel ^a,d   Mitchell, Daniel ^d   Hamer, Rizwan ^a,d   Fletcher, Simon ^a   Lam, For Tai ^a   Kashi, Habib ^a   Tan, Lam Chin ^a   Imray, Christopher ^a   Briggs, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^c NHSBT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ABO titers; Flow cytometry; Kidney transplantation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GROUP ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; ALLOANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ALLOGENEIC RESTRICTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD GROUP O; BLOOD SAMPLING; DONOR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOADSORPTION; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BLOOD; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD GROUPING AND CROSSMATCHING; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; ISOANTIBODIES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 52049113070     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31817c4c4c     Document Type: Article

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