Kidney transplant recipients who die with functioning grafts: Serum creatinine level and cause of death

Transplantation

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1029-1030

  West, Miguel ^a   Sutherland, David E R ^a   Matas, Arthur J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Box 328 UMHC ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CREATININE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0029805071     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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