Multimodal therapy with combined plasmapheresis, photoapheresis, and intravenous immunoglobulin for acute antibody-mediated renal transplant rejection: A 2-year follow-up

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1039-1041

  Lai, Q ^a   Pretagostini, R ^a   Gozzer, M ^b   Cinti, P ^b   Meo, D ^b   Vita, F ^b   Shafii Bafti, M ^b   Poli, L ^a   Novelli, G ^a   Rossi, M ^a   Girelli, G ^b   Berloco, P B ^a  

^a POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ANTIBODY MEDIATED ACUTE REJECTION; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG MEGADOSE; EXTRACORPOREAL PHOTOPHERESIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUVA; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; SAFETY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CREATININE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; ISOANTIBODIES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOPHERESIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79957616417     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: 18732623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2011.03.023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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