Improvements in diabetic microangiopathy after successful simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation: A computer-assisted intravital microscopy study on the conjunctival microcirculation

Transplantation

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 927-932

  Cheung, Anthony T W ^a   Perez, Richard V ^a   Chen, Peter C Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC MICROANGIOPATHY; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONJUNCTIVA; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPIC ANGIOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033570285     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199910150-00005     Document Type: Article

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