Rescue kidney paired donation as emergency salvage for failed desensitization

Transplantation

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Sharif, Adnan ^a   Zachary, Andrea A ^b   Hiller, Janet ^b   Segev, Dorry ^b   Alachkar, Nada ^b   Kraus, Edward S ^b   Desai, Niraj M ^b   Dagher, Nabil N ^b   Singer, Andrew L ^b   Montgomery, Robert A ^b  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HLA ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RITUXIMAB;

ADULT; BK VIRUS; BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; CASE REPORT; DESENSITIZATION; FEMALE; GLOMERULOPATHY; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY PAIRED DONATION; LETTER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, MURINE-DERIVED; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; DESENSITIZATION, IMMUNOLOGIC; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMAPHERESIS; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 84859248215     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318249b10e     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

1. Montgomery RA, Lonze BE, Jackson AM. Using donor exchange paradigms with desensitization to enhance transplant rates among highly sensitized patients. Curr Opin Organ Transplant 2011; 16: 439
2. Montgomery RA. Renal transplantation across HLA and ABO antibody barriers: Integrating paired donation into desensitization protocols. Am J Transplant 2010; 10: 449
3. Montgomery RA, Lonze BE, King KE, et al. Desensitization of HLA-incompatible kidney recipients and survival.NEngl J Med 2011; 365: 318.