Use of calcium-channel blockers in pediatric renal transplant recipients

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 288-292

  Silverstein, Douglas M ^a,b   Palmer, JoAnn ^a   Baluarte, H Jorge ^a   Brass, Caroline ^a   Conley, Susan B ^a   Polinsky, Martin S ^a  

^a ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium channel blockers; Hypertension; Pediatric; Renal; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE BESYLATE; AZATHIOPRINE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CYCLOSPORIN A; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NIFEDIPINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FLUSHING; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY PLASMA FLOW; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEG CRAMP; MALE; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; RASH; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; RECIPIENT; VERTIGO;

ADOLESCENT; AMLODIPINE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NIFEDIPINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032719823     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3046.1999.00056.x     Document Type: Article

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