Risk factors for late renal allograft dysfunction: Effects of baseline glomerular size

Journal of Nephrology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 620-625

  Li, Mingxi ^b   Nicholls, Kathy M ^a   Becker, Gavin J ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Glomerular size; Late allograft dysfunction; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIGEN; AZATHIOPRINE; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN A; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULAR DYSFUNCTION; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GLOMERULUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY HYPERTROPHY; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; KIDNEY SIZE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEPHROTOXICITY; PREDICTION; REFLUX NEPHROPATHY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0036866428     PISSN: 11218428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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