The impact of pre-transplant obesity on renal transplant outcomes

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 5 II, 1997, Pages 493-496

  Drafts, H H ^a   Anjum, M R ^a   Wynn, J J ^a   Mulloy, L L ^a   Bowley, J N ^a   Humphries, A L ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Kidney transplantation; Obesity; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISONE;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CADAVER KIDNEY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AZATHIOPRINE; BODY MASS INDEX; CADAVER; CYCLOSPORINE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; OBESITY; OBESITY, MORBID; PREDNISONE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0030732054     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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