Problems of donor compatibility in a patient with sensitization to an alternate allelic variant of a 'self' HLA specificity

NDT Plus

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 168-169

  Koo, Pamela ^a   McKinley, Katherine ^a   Newstead, Chas ^a   Clark, Brendan ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

allelic; antibody; crossmatch; HLA

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CREATININE; HLA DR ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HISTOINCOMPATIBILITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; MALE; NEPHROSIS; NEPHROSTOMY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RETRANSPLANTATION; SENSITIZATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; URINE VOLUME;

EID: 77955976179     PISSN: 17530784     EISSN: 17530792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndtplus/sfp151     Document Type: Article

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