ABO Blood Type Incompatible Kidney Transplantation Without Splenectomy Prepared With Plasma Exchange and Rituximab

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3445-3447

  Chikaraishi, T ^a   Sasaki, H ^a   Tsutsumi, H ^a   Miyano, S ^a   Nakazawa, R ^a   Nakano, T ^a   Kitajima, K ^a   Kudo, H ^a   Takahashi, T ^a   Sato, Y ^a   Kimura, K ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; BLOOD GROUP A ANTIBODY; BLOOD GROUP B ANTIBODY; CD20 ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RITUXIMAB; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD20; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; CREATININE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; ISOANTIBODIES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PLASMAPHERESIS;

EID: 57549118706     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.06.110     Document Type: Article

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