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Discrepant subtyping of blood type A2 living kidney donors: Missed opportunities in kidney transplantation
11 Jul 2021
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BACKGROUND: Despite the institution of a new Kidney Allocation System in 2014, A2/A2B to B transplantation has not increased as expected. The current Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network policy requires subtyping on two separate occasions, and in the setting of discrepant results, defaulting to the A1 subtype. However, there is significant inherent variability in the serologic assays used for blood group...
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