Diminishing Significance of HLA Matching in Kidney Transplantation

HLA Matching and Sensitization n Kidney Transplantation

The benefit of HLA-matching in kidney transplantation

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HLA matching and cadaver kidney transplantation — status 1984

The effect of HLA matching on cadaver kidney graft survival was analysed in over 9000 transplants. Matching for HLA-A and -B accounted for an improvement of 8% in the one-year survival rate, matching for HLA-DR for 10%, and matching for HLA-B + DR for 19%. The matching effect of the HLA-B and HLA-DR loci was additive. Patients without pre-transplant transfusions had lower graft survival rates t...

HLA matching effect in liver transplantation.

W E HAVE previously shown the HLA matching effect on liver allografts. which suggested the importance of class I matching in liver transplantation. l In this study, using a new set of patients, we reviewed our earlier analysis to study whether or not the class I matching effect still remained. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study consisted of a total of 347 patients who received orthotopic liver tr...

Non-HLA antigens and HLA-DR matching in corneal transplantation.