Histologic grading of acute allograft rejection in pancreas needle biopsy: Correlation to serum enzymes, glycemia, and response to immunosuppressive treatment

Transplantation

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1741-1745

  Papadimitriou, John C ^a,b   Drachenberg, Cinthia B ^a   Wiland, Anne ^a   Klassen, David K ^a   Fink, Jeffrey ^a   Weir, Matthew R ^a   Cangro, Charles ^a   Schweitzer, Eugene J ^a   Bartlett, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN A; GLUCOSE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; ORTHOCLONE; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AMYLASES; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIPASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0032573720     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199812270-00030     Document Type: Article

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