Patients who have previously received a blood transfusion that has HLA-DR allotypes in common with their kidney transplant are _____
a. less likely to reject the graft owing to the presence of regulatory CD4 T cells
b. more likely to reject the graft owing to the presence of HLA alloantibodies
c. less likely to reject the graft owing to negative selection of alloreactive T-cell clones
d. at risk of developing a hyperacute rejection
e. at risk of developing graft-versus-host disease.
A
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