Immunomagnetic bead cell isolates reduce kidney donor cold ischemia time, STAT crossmatch time and histocompatibility

S R Breton1, A C Breggia, R A Emmons

  • 1Maine Medical Center Research Institute, South Portland 04106, USA.

Clinical Transplantation
|December 31, 1997
PubMed

The use of immunomagnetic beads for STAT cadaveric crossmatching for renal transplantation reduces test cost by 50%, laboratory work-up time by 50% and cold ischemia time by 4 h as compared with the nylon wool method of T- and B-lymphocyte separation.