Dual immunoadsorption for ABO-incompatible heart transplantation in a 35 kg child

Abstract

Intraoperative anti-A/B immunoadsorption (ABO-IA) was recently introduced for ABO-incompatible (ABOi) heart transplantation. Here we report the first case of a patient transplanted with ABO-IA, that was of an age and weight that required two ABO-IA columns run in parallel, to enable the reduction in antibody titres to a sufficiently low level in the time available during implantation of the donor organ.

Keywords

abo-mismatch cardiopulmonary bypass heart transplant immunoadsorption incompatible

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