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How do you approach a positive crossmatch after transplant when the clinical picture doesn't support rejection?

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Pulmonology · University of Colorado School of Medicine
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Work with your immunology lab to determine if it is a false positive:

  1. B cell or T cell positive XMatch? B cells give more false positives.
  2. What are the MFI’s - extremely high or close to background?
  3. Has the subject recently received antibody infusions that can give high background, such as IVIG, RA...

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