Acute humoral rejection in an ABO compatible combined liver-kidney transplant - The kidney is not always protected

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1957-1960

  Reichman, T W ^a   Marino, S R ^a   Milner, J ^a   Harland, R C ^a   Cochrane, A ^a   Millis, J M ^a,b   Testa, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Humoral allograft rejection; Kidney allograft; Kidney graft survival; Liver transplantation; Sensitised transplant recipient

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RITUXIMAB; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMAPHERESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650931899     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2009.02714.x     Document Type: Article

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