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What is your approach to treating antibody-mediated rejection in a pregnant patient with a kidney transplant?

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Nephrology · University of Alabama Birmingham
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This is a very difficult situation. Presumably, this is late AMR, and to begin with, we would have very few treatment options. I would first optimize immunosuppression and consider IVIG and solumedrol, and defer further treatment until after delivery. We have not used rituximab in pregnancy. Rituxim...

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