Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Transplantation, 12(89), p. 1471-1475, 2010
DOI: 10.1097/tp.0b013e3181dc13e7
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Recent studies indicate that not all low-level donor-specific human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibodies (HLA-DSA) (i.e., positive by solid-phase assays, negative by complement-dependent cytotoxic-crossmatch) have a detrimental clinical impact. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the pretransplant C4d-fixing capability allows distinguishing harmful from presumably clinically irrelevant HLA-DSA.