[Immunological aspects of the kidney transplantation]

The immunological rejection is still, at the present time, a major risk in kidney transplantation. Accurate assessment of the immunological status of all patients awaiting transplantation or grafted, can assess this risk, this work is intended to describe, in the framework of kidney transplant from living donor, the role of the laboratory of histocompatibility in the immunological care and monitoring of patients: pre-transplant analysis, limitations and performance of available analysis techniques, criteria for matching pairs donor/recipient, follow-up of immunological post transplant. The last part will be devoted to the experience of the immunology unit at the blood transfusion service of ibn Sina Hospital in Rabat