Effect of Apheresis for ABO and HLA Desensitization on Anti-Measles Antibody Titers in Renal Transplantation.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Transplantation Volume 2011, Article ID 869065, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2011/869065 Clinical Study Effect of Apheresis for ABO and HLA Desensitization on Anti-Measles Antibody Titers in Renal Transplantation ¨ 1 2, 3 ¨ 4 5 1 Ulf Schonermarck, Teresa Kauke, Gundula Jager, Antje Habicht, Thorsten Wendler, Joachim Andrassy,3 Markus Guba,3 Manfred Stangl,3 and Michael Fischereder1 1 Nephrology Division, Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Munich—Campus Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Marchioninistrasse 15, D-81377 Munich, Germany 2 Laboratory of Immunogenetics, University Hospital Munich—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany 3 Department of Surgery, University Hospital Munich—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany 4 Department of Clinical Virology, Max von Pettenkofer-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany 5 Transplant Centre, University Hospital Munich—Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany ¨ Correspondence should be addressed to Ulf Schonermarck, ulf.schoenermarck@med.uni-muenchen.de Received 15 June 2011; Revised 6 October 2011; Accepted 20 October 2011 Academic Editor: Kazuhiko Yamada ¨ Copyright © 2011 Ulf Schonermarck et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Desensitizati