Renal transplantation in recipients over the age of 60: The impact of donor age

Transplantation

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1191-1193

  Basar, Halil ^a   Soran, Atilla ^b   Shapiro, Ron ^a,c   Vivas, Carlos ^d   Scantlebury, Velma P ^a   Jordan, Mark L ^d   Gritsch, H Albin ^d   McCauley, Jerry ^a   Randhawa, Parmjeet ^b   Irish, William ^a   Hakala, Thomas R ^d   Fung, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CREATININE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033609024     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199904270-00019     Document Type: Article

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