Successful rescue of refractory acute antibody-mediated renal allograft rejection with splenectomy - A case report

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Roberti, Isabel ^a   Geffner, Stuart ^a   Vyas, Shefali ^a  

^a SAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

acute humoral rejection; children; desensitization; kidney transplantation; plasmapheresis

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATININE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NIFEDIPINE; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ACUTE ANTIBODY MEDIATED REJECTION; ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ANURIA; ARTICLE; CADAVER KIDNEY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DESENSITIZATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEVER; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY; OLIGURIA; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SENSITIZATION; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URINE VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; DESENSITIZATION, IMMUNOLOGIC; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; SPLENECTOMY; URETHRA;

EID: 84857644921     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2011.01518.x     Document Type: Article

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