Features of acute rejection that increase risk for chronic rejection

Transplantation

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1200-1203

  Humar, Abhinav ^a   Kerr, Stephen ^a   Gillingham, Kristen J ^a   Matas, Arthur J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CREATININE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0033610454     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199910270-00023     Document Type: Article

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