Silent acute rejection during prolonged delayed graft function reduces kidney allograft survival

Transplantation

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1400-1404

  Qureshi, Fawad ^a   Rabb, Hamid ^b   Kasiske, Bertram L ^a  

^a HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036853143     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200211270-00010     Document Type: Article

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