Would you recommend complement testing in a kidney transplant recipient with chronic antibody-mediated rejection and biopsy-proven thrombotic microangiopathy to determine the need for eculizumab?
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Nephrology · Temple Nephrology Associates
There is basic and translational data to support the role of IL-6 in acute and chronic humoral rejection, with small single-center trials investigating the use of agents that blockade IL-6/IL-6 receptor interactions for humoral rejection in kidney transplantation. In many of these studies, there is ...