Male recipients of kidneys from female donors are at increased risk of graft loss from both rejection and technical failure

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 181-186

  Vereerstraeten, P ^a   Wissing, M ^a   De Pauw, L ^a   Abramowicz, D ^a   Kinnaert, P ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cadaver kidney transplantation; Graft survival analysis; Recipient and donor gender

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; OKT 3; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER KIDNEY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENDER; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTILYMPHOCYTE SERUM; AZATHIOPRINE; CADAVER; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0032950480     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0012.1999.130205.x     Document Type: Article

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