[Non-HL-A specific anti-thrombocyte autoantibodies in patients after kidney transplantation]

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.