De Novo HLA sensitization and antibody mediated rejection following pregnancy in a heart transplant recipient: Case report

Abstract

Here we report a case wherein both donor-specific and third-party, paternal, HLA class II specific antibodies developed following a spontaneous miscarriage resulting in antibody-mediated rejection in a patient who had undergone an orthotopic cardiac transplant six years earlier. © 2009 The American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.