Should obese patients lose weight before receiving a kidney transplant?

Transplantation

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 599-604

  Modlin, Charles S ^a   Flechner, Stuart M ^a   Goormastic, Marlene ^a   Goldfarb, David A ^a   Papajcik, Doreen ^a   Mastroianni, Barbara ^a   Novick, Andrew C ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY;

EID: 0030953433     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199708270-00009     Document Type: Article

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