Vesico-ureteral reflux in pediatric kidney transplants: Clinical relevance to graft and patient outcome

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 206-209

  Fontana, Iris ^a   Ginevri, F ^b   Arcuri, V ^a   Basile, G ^b   Nocera, A ^a   Beatini, M ^a   Bonato, L ^b   Barocci, S ^a   Bertocchi, M ^a   Manolitsi, O ^a   Valente, R ^a   Draghi, P ^a   Gusmano, R ^b   Valente, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calculated creatinine clearance; Children; Graft survival; Kidney transplantation; Vesico ureteral reflux

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; PREDNISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERONEOCYSTOSTOMY; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CREATININE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INFANT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 0032773552     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3046.1999.00017.x     Document Type: Article

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