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antibody-mediated rejection

World repercussion of the NEJM desensitization article – A Brazilian perspective

April 4, 2016

The recently published paper in the NEJM entitled “Survival Benefit with Kidney Transplants from HLA-Incompatible LiveDonors” caused a huge impact on Brazil’s media. Our main broadcast TV devoted few minutes explaining it, suggesting as a real breakthrough. Patients…

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Is Matching at the HLA Epitope Level the Holy Grail of Longer Graft Survival?

March 5, 2015

All HLA antigens are composed of strings of several polymorphic sites, which may serve as targets, or epitopes, for antibody binding. An important consideration is that HLA antigens have multiple epitopes that can be recognized by specific antibodies….

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