Analysis of HLA matching between deceased organ donors and cord blood units from a national bank network as a basis for potential platforms for chimerism-based immune tolerance after solid organ transplantation

Affiliations

• ¹ ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
• ² Italian National Transplant Centre, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy.
• ³ Italian Bone Marrow Donor Registry, E.O. Ospedali Galliera, Genoa, Italy.
• ⁴ Canadian Blood Service, Ottawa, Canada.
• ⁵ Coordinamento Regionale Trapianti, DG Welfare Regione Lombardia, Milan, Italy.
• ⁶ Italian National Blood Centre, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy.
• ⁷ Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo, Pavia, Italy.