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Stratifying Patients Based on Epitope Mismatching: Ready for Primetime?
Author(s) -
Glotz D.,
Tambur A.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
american journal of transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1600-6143
pISSN - 1600-6135
DOI - 10.1111/ajt.13343
Subject(s) - medicine , epitope , intensive care medicine , immunology , antibody
This editorial supports the influence of HLA epitope matching/mismatching in organ transplant outcome, but highlights the need for additional information and cautions against using it prematurely as a sole prognostic tool. See article from Wiebe et al on page 2197 .