Lab Area: Histocompatibility
► This course EXPIRES (MUST be completed by) 11:55pm (ET) on : Aug. 30, 2024
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, (13 pages).
Total of 2-hours / 2-points in:
► Please Note the NEW Changes Below:
► Entire PACKAGE = ($15), NOW includes:
(1) e-mail with (1) attachment; sent to the e-mail address listed on order:
• attachment has the printable questions (to work off-line), and the above article + the link, (with intructions), to the ONLINE Quiz.
►► Check spam & trash folders at 9am or 9pm (Eastern), for the e-mail.
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• ALL Certificates will NOW be available for you to print / save upon achieving a passing score (70%) •