Donor-specific antibodies in kidney transplant recipients

R Zhang - Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Donor-specific antibodies have become an established biomarker predicting antibody-
mediated rejection. Antibody-mediated rejection is the leading cause of graft loss after …

HLA in transplantation

RA Montgomery, VS Tatapudi, MS Leffell… - Nature reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
The human major histocompatibility complex is a family of genes that encodes HLAs, which
have a crucial role in defence against foreign pathogens and immune surveillance of …

[HTML][HTML] Antibody-mediated rejection: new approaches in prevention and management

RA Montgomery, A Loupy, DL Segev - American Journal of Transplantation, 2018 - Elsevier
Despite the success of desensitization protocols, antibody-mediated rejection (AMR)
remains a significant contributor to renal allograft failure in patients with donor-specific …

Sensitization in heart transplantation: emerging knowledge: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

MM Colvin, JL Cook, PP Chang, DT Hsu, MS Kiernan… - Circulation, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Sensitization, defined as the presence of circulating antibodies, presents challenges for
heart transplant recipients and physicians. When present, sensitization can limit a …

Approach to the highly sensitized kidney transplant candidate

DS Keith, GM Vranic - Clinical Journal of the American Society of …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
For patients with ESRD, kidney transplant offers significant survival and quality-of-life
advantages compared with dialysis. But for patients seeking transplant who are highly …

[HTML][HTML] Dual targeting: combining costimulation blockade and bortezomib to permit kidney transplantation in sensitized recipients

CK Burghuber, M Manook, B Ezekian, AC Gibby… - American Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Previous evidence suggests that a homeostatic germinal center (GC) response may limit
bortezomib desensitization therapy. We evaluated the combination of costimulation …

[HTML][HTML] Proteasome inhibitor carfilzomib-based therapy for antibody-mediated rejection of the pulmonary allograft: use and short-term findings

CR Ensor, SA Yousem, M Marrari, MR Morrell… - American Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present this observational study of lung transplant recipients (LTR) treated with
carfilzomib (CFZ)-based therapy for antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) of the lung. Patients …

Therapies for chronic allograft rejection

MY Kim, DC Brennan - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Remarkable advances have been made in the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of
antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) over the past decades, leading to improved graft …

Detection and management of HLA sensitization in candidates for adult heart transplantation

EM DeFilippis, EP Kransdorf, A Jaiswal, X Zhang… - The Journal of Heart and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Heart transplantation (HT) remains the preferred therapy for patients with advanced heart
failure. However, for sensitized HT candidates who have antibodies to human leukocyte …

Donor HLA-specific Abs: to BMT or not to BMT?

MS Leffell, RJ Jones, DE Gladstone - Bone marrow transplantation, 2015 - nature.com
The engraftment failure associated with Abs to donor-specific HLA (DSA) limits options for
sensitized BMT candidates. Fourteen of fifteen patients with no other viable donor options …