Absence of deleterious effect on long-term kidney graft survival of rejection episodes with complete functional recovery

Transplantation

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1739-1743

  Vereerstraeten, Pierre ^a   Abramowicz, Daniel ^a   De Pauw, Luc ^a   Kinnaert, Paul ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OKT 3; PREDNISOLONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CADAVER KIDNEY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; CREATININE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031011137     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199706270-00006     Document Type: Article

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