Splenectomy Does Not Offer Immunological Benefits in ABO-Incompatible Liver Transplantation With a Preoperative Rituximab - Concepedia

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Splenectomy Does Not Offer Immunological Benefits in ABO-Incompatible Liver Transplantation With a Preoperative Rituximab

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2011

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Vikram Raut, Akira Mori, Toshimi Kaido, Yasuhiro Ogura, Taku Iida, Kazuyuki Nagai, Naoya Sasaki, Kosuke Endo, Toshiyuki Hata, Shintaro Yagi,

Transplantation

Abstract

Preoperative rituximab effectively decreased the anti-ABO antibodies sufficiently to prevent the AMR irrespective of splenectomy. Splenectomy does not offer any immunological benefit in ABO-I LT with preoperative rituximab.

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