Patients stuck on waiting lists for compatible kidney donors often end up quitting because the odds are so slim. But a new method called desensitization could increase their chances of successful ...

A new procedure called desensitization allows doctors to alter patient’s immune systems and transplant kidneys from living donors previously considered incompatible. Experts say that this method could ...

Chicago, IL - Patients who experience hypersensitivity reactions to clopidogrel but who require the drug after having a stent placement can overcome their allergy by undergoing a careful ...

For patients weighing less than 10 kg, the drug concentration for bag 3 is the desired maintenance dose of the antimicrobial drug (in milligrams) divided by 6.67 mL. For example, if the desired ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. In conclusion, we report an AML case in which short-term desensitization method, using rituximab, IVIg, and DSA-PC without plasma exchange, ...

A single-centre study found that desensitization therapy permits a good success rate of kidney transplantation with an incompatible living donor. Data from 22 US centres now suggest that this ...

Drug desensitization is the process by which a patient is densensitized to a drug that they allergic to in the past. This induces a temporary state of tolerance, during which the drug can be ...