Kidney transplantation in children: Impact of young recipient age on graft survival

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2141-2146

  Lufft, Volkmar ^a,b   Tusch, Günter ^c   Offner, Gisela ^d   Brunkhorst, Reinhard ^e,f  

^a Abt Gastroenterologie Hepatologie   (Germany)

^b Nephrol Zent Rendsburg Eckernforde   (Germany)

^c Klin Abdom/Transplantationschir   (Germany)

^d OE 6724 D 30623   (Germany)

^e HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^f Klinikum Hannover Oststadt   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute rejection; Cold ischaemia time; Graft survival; HLA matching; Kidney transplantation; Recipient age

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; HLA ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA MATCHING; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SEX RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0141927184     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfg316     Document Type: Article

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