Weight changes after renal transplantation: A comparison between patients on 5-mg maintenance steroid therapy and those on steroid-free immunosuppressive therapy

Transplant International

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 300-306

  Van den Ham, Eugénie C H ^a   Kooman, Jeroen P ^a   Christiaans, Maarten H L ^a   Nieman, Fred H M ^a   Van Hooff, Johannes P ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Post transplant weight gain; Renal transplantation; Steroid free immuno suppression; Steroids

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0038409963     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2003.tb00304.x     Document Type: Article

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