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Immune monitoring in small bowel transplantation.
Current opinion in organ transplantation - 1 Jun 2010
Sindhi Rakesh, AshokKumar Chethan, Mazariegos George, Nayyar Navdeep, Ningappa Mylarappa, Soltys Kyle, Bond Geoffrey, Sun Qing, Humar Abhinav, Abu-Elmagd Kareem, Zeevi Adriana
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Immune monitoring is needed in small bowel transplantation (SBTx) because of a high incidence of rejection and graft loss, and life-threatening complications of high-dose prophylactic immunosuppression. RECENT FINDINGS: Clinical tests relevant to SBTx include methods to detect antidonor human leukocyte antigen antibodies, among which those which use known purified human leukocyte antigen...
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