Are wound complications after a kidney transplant more common with modern immunosuppression?

Transplantation

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1920-1923

  Humar, Abhinav ^a   Ramcharan, Thiagarajan ^a   Denny, Roger ^a   Gillingham, Kristen J ^a   Payne, William D ^a   Matas, Arthur J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

AGE; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HERNIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; STEROID THERAPY; URINE INCONTINENCE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0035667445     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200112270-00009     Document Type: Article

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