Clinical and Developmental Immunology
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 715769, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/715769
Review Article

Passenger Lymphocyte Syndrome and Liver Transplantation

Maxime Audet, Fabrizio Panaro, Tullio Piardi, Ping Huang, Murat Cag, Jacques Cinqualbre, and Philippe Wolf

Centre de Chirurgie Viscérale et de Transplantation, Hôpital de Hautepierre, Hopitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg-Université Louis Pasteur, Avenue Molière, 67200 Strasbourg, France

Received 17 November 2008; Accepted 28 December 2008

Academic Editor: Mario Clerici

Copyright © 2008 Maxime Audet et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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