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. 1968 May;128(1):247-50.
doi: 10.3181/00379727-128-32988.

Changes in serum haptoglobin and group specific component after orthotopic liver homotransplantation in humans

N Kashiwagi, C G Groth, T E Starzl

Changes in serum haptoglobin and group specific component after orthotopic liver homotransplantation in humans

N Kashiwagi et al. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1968 May.
No abstract available

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Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Effect of liver transplantation upon serum haptoglobin (Hp). Patients 2 (top) and 3 (center) had preoperative Hp types 2–2, and 2–1, whereas their donors had 1–1 and 2–2, respectively. After transplantation, only the donor type was detectable in the recipient sera. In Case 4 (bottom), both the donor and recipient were 2–2. For the first 12 hours after transplantation, the recipient serum, was found to contain Hp 2–1 mixed with 2–2, presumably a consequence of massive blood transfusion during the operation. All subsequent samples were 2–2.
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
In Cases 1 (top) and 2 (bottom), the group specific component (Gc) types of the recipients which mere 2–1 and 1–1, were converted after transplantation to the 1–1 and 2–1 types of their donors.
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