Strategies for optimizing growth in children with kidney transplants

Transplantation

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 229-233

  Tejani, Amir ^a   Butt, Khalid M H ^a   Rajpoot, Deepak ^a   Gonzalez, Rafael ^a   Buyan, Necla ^a   Pomrantz, Andrew ^a   Sharma, Rajesh ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; LEVODOPA; METHYLDOPA; PREDNISONE; SOMATREM;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG THERAPY; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; INFANT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDNISONE; PUBERTY;

EID: 0024508773     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-198902000-00006     Document Type: Article

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