Articles tagged "Antibodies"

2015 American Transplant Congress
T-Cell Depletion Versus Interleukin-2 Antagonists in a Kidney Transplant Model of Sensitized Rhesus Macaques
C. Burghuber,^1,2 J. Kwun,¹ E. Page,¹ F. Leopardi,³ A. Gibby,¹ A. Farris,¹ N. Iwakoshi,¹ S. Knechtle.¹
¹Emory University, Atlanta, GA; ²Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ³Duke University, Durham, NC.
[Background] Sensitized patients comprise up to a third of the kidney waiting list. Preformed and newly formed alloantibodies post transplantation (TX) deteriorate graft survival, recall…