Chethan Ashokkumar, Mylarappa Ningappa, Vikram Raghu, George Mazariegos, Brandon W Higgs, Paul Morgan, Lisa Remaley, Tamara Fazzolare Martin, Pamela Holzer, Kevin Trostle, Qingyong Xu, Adriana Zeevi, James Squires, Kyle Soltys, Simon Horslen, Ajai Khanna, Armando Ganoza, Rakesh Sindhi
BACKGROUND: Enhanced B-cell presentation of donor alloantigen relative to presentation of HLA-mismatched reference alloantigen is associated with acute cellular rejection (ACR), when expressed as a ratio called the antigen presenting index (API) in an exploratory cohort of liver and intestine transplant (LT and IT) recipients. METHODS: To test clinical performance, we measured the API using the previously described 6-h assay in 84 LT and 54 IT recipients with median age 3...
March 2024: Transplantation Direct