Renal transplantation, chronic dialysis, and chronic renal insufficiency in children and adolescents. The 1995 annual report of the North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-64

  Warady, Bradley A ^a   Hébert, Diane ^b   Sullivan, E Kenneth ^c   Alexander, Steven R ^d   Tejani, Amir ^e  

^a CHILDREN S MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c EMMES Corporation   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^e SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic renal insufficiency; Hemodialysis; Peritoneal dialysis; Renal transplant

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISONE;

ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CANCER; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DIALYSIS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MORTALITY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; REGISTRIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY;

EID: 0031032655     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004670050232     Document Type: Article

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