Influence of steroid withdrawal on proteinuria in renal allograft recipients

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 5 I, 1997, Pages 395-398

  Ghandour, Fadi Z ^a   Knauss, Thomas C ^a   Mulligan, David C ^a   Schulak, James A ^a   Hricik, Donald E ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Proteinuria; Renal transplant rejection; Steroid withdrawal

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; PROTEINURIA; RISK FACTOR; STEROID THERAPY; URINALYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; AZATHIOPRINE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDNISONE; PROTEINURIA; RECURRENCE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0030827503     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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