Articles tagged "Highly-sensitized"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Desensitization Protocol Including Concomitant Bortezomib and Rituximab Did Not Reduce Calculated PRA Nor Mean MFI Values Among Waitlisted Patients for Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
S. Kang,¹ H. Lim,¹ J. Jeong,¹ E. Song,² I. Yun,³ C. Ahn,¹ J. Yang.¹
¹Transplantation Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea; ²Department of Laboratory Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea; ³Department of Surgery, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea.
Highly sensitized (HS) patients (pts) seldom have chance to receive deceased donor kidney transplant (DDKT). A desensitization (DES) program including bortezomib was employed to facilitate…