Lab Area:  Histocompatibility

  ► EXPIRES on:  Jan. 31, 2021

This course meets the following RENEWAL requirements: 

• Florida’s 1-hour minimum requirement 
• ASCP’s  remaining points in other lab area interest 
• Other national and/or state license needs 

This course discusses the background for this article, including the findings of previous studies; the criteria for selecting patients for this study; testing for serum HLA Ab, sCD30, and DSA positivity; the risk of graft loss during the first 3 post- transplant years; a diagnostic tool to differentiate between harmful and harmless DSA; the type of DSA that was detected in only 5 of the 58 sCD30 positive high-risk patients; and the graft survival rates between pre-transplant DSA positive, sCD30 negative patients and DSA negative patients. 

Article used:  “Donor-specific antibodies require preactivated immune system to harm renal transplant”, by Süsal, et al, in EBioMedicine, courtesy of Elsevier, 2016  (13 pages).

Total of 2-hours / 2-points in:

• Histocompatibility

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       Reading  Material (article or text book)  +  Quiz  Booklet  +  1  Work  Sheet 

 ►  "WORK"  Sheet  includes:  1  "Work"  Sheet  ONLY;

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