INFECTIOUS OUTCOMES IN LIVING DONOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS FOLLOWING MULTIMODAL PREOPERATIVE DESENSITIZATION TO OVERCOME HUMORAL BARRIERS

摘要

Preexisting humoral barriers significantly challenge transplantation of living donor kidneys (LDK) into highly sensitized ABO and HLA incompatible recipients. Aggressive conditioning of recipients' immune systems is required pre-transplantation. We hypothesized that preconditioning would result in higher infection rates post-transplant.