Initial experience with tacrolimus rescue therapy in OKT3 resistant rejection

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 352-354

  Herget, S ^a   Heemann, U ^a   Friedrich, J ^a   Kribben, A ^a   Wagner, K ^a   Philipp, Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute rejection; Rescue therapy; Tacrolimus

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; OKT 3; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INFECTION RATE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; BIOPSY; DRUG RESISTANCE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; MUROMONAB-CD3; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACROLIMUS;

EID: 0029875841     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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