Kidney transplantation from related and unrelated living donors in a single German centre

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 418-425

  Voiculescu, Adina ^a   Ivens, Katrin ^a   Hetzel, Gerd Rüdiger ^a   Hollenbeck, Markus ^a   Sandmann, Wilhelm ^a   Grabitz, Klaus ^a   Balzer, Kai ^a   Schneider, Frank ^a   Grabensee, Bernd ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kidney tranplantation; Living kidney donation; Related donors; Unrelated donors

Indexed keywords

ALG LYMPHOGLOBULIN MERIEUX; ATG FRESENIUS S; BASILIXIMAB; CELL CEPT; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTOTOXIC ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; OKT 3; ORTHOCLONE; PENTAMIDINE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; SANDIMMUM OPTORAL; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URBASON SOLUBLE FORTE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GERMANY; GRAFT FAILURE; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAW; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0037314962     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/18.2.418     Document Type: Article

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