Immunomagnetic bead cell isolates reduce kidney donor cold ischemia time, STAT crossmatch time and histocompatibility test cost.

The use of immunomagnetic beads for STAT cadaveric crossmatching for renal transplantation reduces test cost by 50%, laboratory work-up time by 50% and cold ischemia time by 4 h as compared with the nylon wool method of T- and B-lymphocyte separation.