2010
DOI: 10.5262/tndt.2010.1002.73
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Successful Treatment of Refractory Acute Humoral Allograft Rejection with Single Dose Rituximab

Abstract: Acute humoral rejection (AHR) is a rare event; however it can potentially lead to graft loss in up 40% of cases after 1 year of transplantation. A number of features like re-transplantation, ABO incompatibility and positive lymphocyte cross-match portend a high risk for AHR. We performed a retransplantation to a 23-year-old female patient who had lost her fi rst allograft due to polyomavirus nephropathy. After the second transplantation, she developed AHR that was confi rmed by allograft biopsy. We instituted … Show more

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