P052 In search of a gold standard for a low immune risk kidney transplant. Flow cytometry crossmatch or single antigen beads?

After several years of the introduction of the single antigen bead assay (SAB), no consensus have been reached about the most reliable way to interpret its positive results and many different protocols have been tested (denatured beads, EDTA, heat, dilutions, C1q and others). The absence of reaction, leading to a negative virtual crossmatch, is probably the only result widely accepted. It is the policy of our hospital to offer a kidney graft to...