ABO-incompatible heart transplantation: Crossing the immunological barrier

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 854-857

  Gerosa, Gino ^a,b   Gambino, Antonio ^a   Torregrossa, Gianluca ^a   Cozzi, Emanuele ^a   Angelini, Annalisa ^a   De Silvestro, Giustina ^a   Cerutti, Alessia ^a   Feltrin, Giuseppe ^a   Toscano, Giuseppe ^a   DAgostino, Chiara ^a   Zanella, Fabio ^a   Thiene, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b 35100 Padova C/o Dipartimento di Scienze Cardiologiche Toraciche e Vascolari   (Italy)

Author keywords

ABO incompatible; Heart transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP A; BLOOD GROUP O; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CASE REPORT; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FIBROMA; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART TUMOR; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN DONOR; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VOMITING; ADULT; BIOPSY; BLOOD; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PLASMAPHERESIS;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ADULT; BIOPSY; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBROMA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; INFANT; MYOCARDIUM; PLASMAPHERESIS;

EID: 55949122539     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/JCM.0b013e3282f64233     Document Type: Article

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