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Rare phenotype and transplantability in cadaveric kidney transplant.
Transplantation proceedings - 1 Apr 2004
Favoino B, Frugis Caggianelli L, Mininni D, Nitti M, Battaglia M, Ditonno P, Di Paolo S, Schena A
Abstract excerpt
The waiting list for kidney transplants in the Apulia region contains recipients (about 30%) who were never selected for transplant due to the rare HLA antigen phenotypes and homozygosis. Therefore, an algorithm was selected to equilibrate the chance for patients to be selected despite a rare phenotype. We calculated for each patient, the sum (%) of the A, B, DR antigen frequency (total phenotypic frequency;...
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