Mehmet Kanbay, Sidar Copur, Mustafa Guldan, Ahmet U Topcu, Lasin Ozbek, Baris Hasbal, Caner Süsal, Burak Kocak, Jasper Callemeyn, Mårten Segelmark
Kidney transplantation, the gold-standard therapeutic approach for patients with end-stage kidney disease, offers improvement in patient survival and quality of life. However, broad sensitization against human leukocyte antigens often resulting in a positive crossmatch against the patient's living donor or the majority of potential deceased donors in the allocation system represents a major obstacle due to a high risk for antibody-mediated rejection, delayed graft function and allograft loss. Kidney-paired donation and desensitization protocols have been established to overcome this obstacle, with limited success...
March 2024: Clinical Kidney Journal