Feasibility of ABO-incompatible living donor liver transplantation in the rituximab era

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1332-1333

  Ikegami, Toru ^a   Shirabe, Ken ^a   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RITUXIMAB;

BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG SAFETY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; JAPAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, MURINE-DERIVED; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; CALCINEURIN; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; PERIODICITY; PLASMA EXCHANGE; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78349248316     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22160     Document Type: Letter

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