ABO blood group-incompatible living donor kidney transplantation: A prospective, single-centre analysis including serial protocol biopsies

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 298-303

  Oettl, Tobias ^a   Halter, Joerg ^a   Bachmann, Alexander ^a   Guerke, Lorenz ^a   Infanti, Laura ^a   Oertli, Daniel ^a   Mihatsch, Michael ^b   Gratwohl, Alois ^a   Steiger, Juerg ^a   Dickenmann, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ABO incompatible; Immunoadsorption; Kidney transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CD19 ANTIBODY; CREATININE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FRESENIUS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; STEROID; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMINURIA; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BK VIRUS; BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; BRONCHUS OBSTRUCTION; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTENSION; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; IMMUNOSORBENT TECHNIQUES; ISOANTIBODIES; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 58049191431     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfn478     Document Type: Article

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