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  • Title: Pretreatment with blood transfusions in primary kidney transplantation.
    Author: Brynger H, Frisk B, Sandberg L, Gelin LE.
    Journal: Scand J Urol Nephrol Suppl; 1980; 54():52-4. PubMed ID: 7013043.
    Abstract:
    Since 1977 a deliberate pretransplant transfusion protocol consisting of two units of leucocyte poor blood given minimum 6 weeks prior to transplantation was applied to earlier not transfused recipients of primary renal transplants in Gothenburg. Graft loss due to rejection at 6 months was 17% and 8% in cadaver and one shared HLA-haplotype living donor recipients, respectively. These results were very much superior to those earlier obtained in not transfused recipients in this centre. The risk of presensitization seemed low.
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