Tacrolimus rescue therapy for renal allograft rejection - Five-year experience

Transplantation

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 223-228

  Jordan, Mark L ^a,b   Naraghi, Robert ^a   Shapiro, Ron ^a   Smith, Deidre ^a   Vivas, Carlos A ^a   Scantlebury, Velma P ^a   Gritsch, H Albin ^a   McCauley, Jerry ^a   Randhawa, Parmjeet ^a   Demetris, Anthony J ^a   McMichael, John ^a   Fung, John J ^a   Starzl, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Liliane Kaufmann Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; OKT 3; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; ANTILYMPHOCYTE SERUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYCLOSPORINE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TACROLIMUS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0030893367     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199701270-00008     Document Type: Article

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