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The UNET system allows blood type B patients to receive blood type A2 or A2B donor kidneys. To qualify for the program, patients must satisfy titer criteria set by the transplant center. We developed protocols for these types of transplants. Literature states “perform Anti-A titer” and does not differentiate the target sub-group cell to use for titer. We hypothesize that since A2 cells express weaker...
The new Kidney Allocation Scheme (KAS) has increased requests for virtual crossmatches (VXM) to predict the possibility of a negative donor specific cross-match. This study evaluates the efficacy of an in-house generated algorithm to predict and quantify the allogeneic cross-match.A retrospective review was conducted on 50 Flow Cytometry Crossmatch (FLXM) results that were collected from the database...