Steroid withdrawal in pancreas transplant recipients

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-78

  Humar, Abhinav ^a   Parr, Elizabeth ^a   Drangstveit, Mary Beth ^a   Kandaswamy, Raja ^a   Gruessner, Angelika C ^a   Sutherland, David E R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Pancreas transplants; Prednisone; Steroid withdrawal

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ARTICLE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PREDNISONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033953540     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0012.2000.140114.x     Document Type: Article

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