Kidney transplantation in highly sensitized patients: are there options to overcome a positive crossmatch?

Extending options for highly sensitized

Extending options for highly sensitized patients to receive a suitable kidney graft

✍ Ilias IN Doxiadis; Rene J Duquesnoy; Frans HJ Claas 📂 Article 📅 2005 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 113 KB

Highly sensitized patients (anti-HLA) on the kidney waiting list wait longer for a suitable crossmatch negative organ. At the moment there are two strategies to enhance transplantation of these patients. One approach is the determination of acceptable HLA mismatches and application of this knowledge