Is kidney graft biopsy indicated in recipients with newly developed, microscopic hematuria?

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 110-114

  Kim, Yu Seun ^a,b   Jeong, Hyeon Joo ^a   Kim, Myoung Soo ^a   Kim, Soon Il ^a   Han, Dae Suk ^a   Park, Kill ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Graft biopsy; Microscopic hematuria; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEPHROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; SCHOOL CHILD; BIOPSY; GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

ADULT; BIOPSY; CYCLOSPORINE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, IGA; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0031955377     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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