Impact of age, gender and race on patient and graft survival following renal transplantation - Developing country experience

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 689-695

  Moosa, M Rafique ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; GENDER; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0242299716     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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