Relapse rate and outcome of ANCA-associated small vessel vasculitis after transplantation

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1001-1004

  Elmedhem, Abdurrezagh ^a   Adu, Dwomoa ^a   Savage, Caroline O S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Relapse; Renal transplantation; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER KIDNEY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL VESSEL VASCULITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0038363623     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfg087     Document Type: Article

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