Kidney transplants for children under 1 year of age - A single-center experience

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 163-167

  Khwaja, Khalid ^a   Humar, Abhinav ^a   Najarian, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadaver donors; Cyclosporine; Immunosuppression; Kidney transplants; Living donors; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OKT 3; PREDNISOLONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

CADAVER DONOR; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MALE; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECIPIENT; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; URINE VOLUME;

CADAVER; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE;

EID: 0037642250     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3046.2003.00013.x     Document Type: Review

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