Non-HL-A specific anti-thrombocyte autoantibodies in patients after kidney transplantation
Kuster, J.; Binswanger, U.; von Felten, A.
Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift 106(40): 1376
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0036-7672 PMID: 795024 Document Number: 103210
Occasional episodes of thrombycytopenia in patients after renal allotransplantation have led to the discovery of antiplatelet autoantibodies directed against specificities not shared by other blood cells and not identical with any of the hitheryo known platelet-specific isoantigens. The antibodies seem to be responsible for the mild thrombocytopenia sometimes observed in kidney-transplant patients. The presence of these antibodies could not be correlated with any biochemical or clinical parameter of the transplanted patient; more specifically, they had no negative effect on transplant survival or function.