Aggressive treatment of the first acute rejection episode using first-line anti-lymphocytic preparation reduces further acute rejection episodes after human kidney transplantation

Transplant International

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages

  Theodorakis, J ^a   Schneeberger, H ^a   Illner, W D ^a   Stangl, M ^a   Zanker, B ^a   Land, W ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute rejection episodes; Chronic transplant failure

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; CYCLOSPORINE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031608979     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.1998.tb01203.x     Document Type: Article

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