Renal transplantation

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 844-847

  Webb, N J A ^a   Johnson, R ^b   Postlethwaite, R J ^a  

^a ROYAL MANCHESTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UK Transplant   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; DACLIZUMAB; EVEROLIMUS; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ACNE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIALYSIS; DRUG SCREENING; EDITORIAL; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; GINGIVA HYPERPLASIA; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; HYPERTRICHOSIS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MOON FACE; MORTALITY; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; REGISTER; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CHILD; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0141525044     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.88.10.844     Document Type: Editorial

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