The high prevalence of severe early posttransplant renal allograft pathology inhepatitis C positive recipients

Transplantation

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1054-1059

  Cosio, Fernando G ^a   Sedmak, Daniel D ^a   Henry, Mitchell L ^a   Al Haddad, Chafik ^a   Falkenhain, Michael E ^a   Elkhammas, Elmahdi A ^a   Davies, Elizabeth A ^a   Bumgardner, Ginny L ^a   Ferguson, Ronald M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; ARTICLE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BIOPSY; COMPLEMENT C3; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0029861847     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199610270-00004     Document Type: Article

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