Is immunosuppression therapy in renal allograft recipients teratogenic? A single-center experience

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-36

  Bar, Jacob ^a,b   Stahl, Bracha ^a,b   Hod, Moshe ^a,b   Wittenberg, Clara ^a,b   Pardo, Joseph ^a,b   Merlob, Paul ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; Malformations; Pregnancy; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL TERATOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS OUTCOME; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; THUMB MALFORMATION;

EID: 0037216329     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.10817     Document Type: Article

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