Improving results in solitary pancreas transplantation with portal-enteric drainage, thymoglobin induction, and tacrolimus/mycophenolate mofetil-based immunosuppression

Transplant International

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 154-160

  Stratta, Robert J ^a,b   Lo, Agnes ^b   Shokouh Amiri, M Hosein ^b   Egidi, M Francesca ^b   Gaber, Lillian W ^b   Gaber, A Osama ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody induction; Daclizumab; Pancreas after kidney transplantation; Pancreas alone transplantation; Surgical technique

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; DACLIZUMAB; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; FLUCONAZOLE; GANCICLOVIR; HEPARIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PARACETAMOL; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; THYMO; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WARFARIN;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS AFTER KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTILYMPHOCYTE SERUM; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DRAINAGE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PORTAL SYSTEM; RABBITS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TACROLIMUS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037641181     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2003.tb00279.x     Document Type: Article

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