Long-term experience with simultaneous kidney-pacreas transplantation with portal-enteric drainage and tacrolimus/mycophenolate mofetil-based immunosuppression

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 9, 2003, Pages 69-77

  Stratta, Robert J ^a,b   Shokouh Amiri, M H ^a   Egidi, M Francesca ^a   Grewal, Hani P ^a   Lo, Agnes ^a   Kizilisik, A Tarik ^a   Nezakatgoo, Nosratollah ^a   Gabert, Lillian W ^a   Gaber, A Osama ^a  

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

^b WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Graft survival; Immunosupression; Morbidity; Mycophenolate mofetil; Pancreas transplantation; Portal enteric; Simultaneous kidney pancreas transplantation; Surgical technique; Tacrolimus

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BASILIXIMAB; CEFAZOLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DACLIZUMAB; FLUCONAZOLE; GANCICLOVIR; HEPARIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; WARFARIN;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INSULIN DEPENDENCE; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROTOMY; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOSIS; NAUSEA; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REOPERATION; SEPSIS; THROMBOSIS; VOMITING;

EID: 0043123345     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0012.17.s9.13.x     Document Type: Article

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