Experience with Neoral versus Sandimmune in primary liver transplant recipients

Transplant International

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages

  Pinson, C W ^a   Chapman, W C ^a   Wright, J K ^a   Hunter, E B ^a   Awad, J A ^a   Raiford, D S ^a   Payne, J L ^a   Geevarghese, S ^a   Blair, T K ^a   Van Buren, D H ^a  

^a Vanderbilt University Transplant Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclosporine; Liver transplantation; Neoral; Rejection; Sandimmune

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031609889     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.1998.tb01134.x     Document Type: Article

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