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Living-donor Sequential ABO-incompatible Kidney Transplantation after Liver Transplantation in a Patient with Alcoholic Liver Cirrhosis and End-stage Renal Disease
- Source :
- Korean Journal of Transplantation. 29:28-32
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- The Korean Society for Transplantation, 2015.
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Abstract
- A 47-year-old man developed chronic alcoholic liver cirrhosis and end-stage renal disease. He underwent blood-type-compatible liver transplantation with a graft from his daughter. After 8 months, sequential ABO-incompatible (ABOi) kidney transplantation was performed, with his brother as the donor (A to O). The patient had anti-A antibody titers (1:256). We performed pretransplant desensitization, including administration of rituximab, mycophenolate mofetil, tacrolimus, and prednisolone 2 weeks before the scheduled transplantation, and plasmaphresis (PP) and administered an intravenous immunoglobulin injection. The patient un- derwent PP before kidney transplantation until the anti-A antibody titer was
- Subjects :
- Transplantation
medicine.medical_specialty
Cirrhosis
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Immunology
Liver transplantation
medicine.disease
Tacrolimus
End stage renal disease
Surgery
surgical procedures, operative
medicine
Prednisolone
Rituximab
business
Kidney transplantation
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 26718804 and 26718790
- Volume :
- 29
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Korean Journal of Transplantation
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........596d709aea35f6aa1358b4c584cd79b5