Anaphylaxis secondary to thymoglobulin (anti-thymocyte globulin) is a rare condition that can be life threatening. Thymoglobulin is a rabbit-derived T-cell depleting polyclonal immunoglobulin.
Muhammad I. Saeed +4 more
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Induction immunosuppression in kidney transplantation: Thymoglobulin® (a literature review) [PDF]
Rabbit anti-thymocyte immunoglobulin, Thymoglobulin, was first obtained over 25 years ago and currently it is the most widely used antilymphocytic immunoglobulin in solid organ transplantation.
A. V. Pinchuk
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Is Thymoglobulin or Rituximab the Cause of This Serum Sickness? A Case Report of Serum Sickness Dilemma and Literature Review [PDF]
Serum sickness is an immune-complex-mediated systemic illness that can occur after treatment with monoclonal or polyclonal antibodies such as Rituxan (Rituximab) or antithymocyte globulin (Thymoglobulin), respectively.
Amarpreet Sandhu +3 more
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Background: We performed a retrospective trial to determine asymptomatic CMV reactivation and CMV disease in kidney allograft recipients with positive CMV serostatus.
Camilo Montero +14 more
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Continuity of Care Following Intraoperative Cardiac Arrest due to Thymoglobulin®-induced Anaphylaxis [PDF]
Rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin (Thymoglobulin®, Sanofi-Aventis, Quebec, Canada) a purified gamma immune globulin obtained from the serum of rabbits immunised against human thymocytes, is widely used as an immunosuppressant agent to prevent acute ...
Jose R Navas-Blanco +4 more
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Immunological induction with thymoglobulin: reduction in the number of doses in renal transplant from deceased donor [PDF]
Objective: To compare three different regimens of thymoglobulin induction. Methods: One hundred seventy two patients submitted to renal transplantation from a dead donor were divided into three groups according to the total number of thymoglobulin doses ...
Lucio Roberto Requião Moura +8 more
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Poor efficacy is one of the issues for clinical islet transplantation. Recently, we demonstrated that pancreatic ductal preservation significantly improved the success rate of islet isolation; however, two transplants were necessary to achieve insulin ...
Shinichi Matsumoto M.D., Ph.D. +11 more
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Thymoglobulin versus alemtuzumab versus basiliximab kidney transplantation from donors after circulatory death [PDF]
Introduction 3C, a study comparing alemtuzumab versus basiliximab induction immunosuppression in kidney transplants has shown lower acute rejection rate with alemtuzumab but same graft survival.
Sabah, Tarique K. +7 more
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Batch-to-Batch Variation and Patient Heterogeneity in Thymoglobulin Binding and Specificity: One Size Does Not Fit All. [PDF]
Background: Thymoglobulin is used to prevent allograft rejection and is being explored at low doses as intervention immunotherapy in type 1 diabetes. Thymoglobulin consists of a diverse pool of rabbit antibodies directed against many different targets on
den Hollander NHM, Jansen DTSL, Roep BO.
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CAQ Corner: Basic concepts of transplant immunology
Liver Transplantation, EarlyView.
Amanda Cheung, Josh Levitsky
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