Effect of homocysteine on carotid intima-media thickness after renal transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 555-560

  Suwelack, Barbara ^a,b   Gerhardt, Ulf ^a   Witta, Jan ^a   Rahn, Karl Heinz ^a   Hohage, Helge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Evolution of intima media thickness; Hyperhomocysteinemia; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HOMOCYSTEINE; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HOMOCYSTINURIA; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033646488     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0012.2000.140607.x     Document Type: Article

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