Is cholesterol embolic disease an unrecognized cause of renal graft dysfunction?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1325-1327

  De Takats, D L P ^a   Pollock, L E ^a   O'Donnell, P J ^a   Snowden, S ^a   Bewick, M ^a   Scoble, J E ^a,b  

^a Dulwich Community Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cholesterol emboli; Renal transplant

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; STREPTOKINASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMBOLISM; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029901092     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/11.7.1325     Document Type: Article

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