Highly Sensitized Patients: Miami Transplant Institute Experience.
CONCLUSIONS: In highly sensitized patients who received desensitization with IVIG, the addition of Rituximab to our standard IS (and/or IVIG and plasmapheresis as per the immunologic risk stratification model) resulted in higher cumulative patient and graft survival.
PMID: 26281142 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: Clinical Transplants - Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Clin Transpl Source Type: research
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