Clinical Review
Taking the Mystery Out of the Match: Histocompatibility Testing and Kidney Transplantation
Fed Pract. 2012 September;29(9):30
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Edward Falta, MD, FACS; Michael Patkowski, PGY4; Wanda Nelson-Smith, CHS; Christina Yuan, MD
Organ transplantation is unique as a surgical specialty because of the surgeon’s relationship with the science of histocompatibility. The two have advanced in tandem over the last 50 years—allowing for remarkable improvements in allograft and patient survival.