Protocol biopsy: What is the rationale and what is the evidence?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 644-647

  Morath, Christian ^a   Ritz, Eberhard ^a   Zeier, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute rejection; Allograft nephropathy; Cyclosporin A toxicity; Delayed graft function; Protocol biopsy; Stable renal graft

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ALLOGRAFT; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY;

EID: 0037384260     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfg036     Document Type: Editorial

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