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Evading antigens—ABO-incompatible liver transplantation

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology volume 12, pages 676–678 (2015)Cite this article

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Whereas the status of the liver as privileged and exempt from humoral rejection has fallen, attempts at breaching the blood group barrier during transplantation have continued. Previously restricted to paediatric patients and emergencies, advances in immunosuppression protocols have improved outcomes to the point that ABO-incompatible liver transplantation might be more widely used in adults.

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  1. Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Dumont-UCLA Transplant Centre, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, 757 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095, CA, USA

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Zarrinpar, A., Busuttil, R. Evading antigens—ABO-incompatible liver transplantation. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 12, 676–678 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrgastro.2015.193

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