Hypercoagulable state and graft rejection - Is there a link?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2293-2296

  Heidenreich, Stefan ^a,b   Nowak Göttl, Ulricke ^a   August, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b INST OF REPRO MED OF THE UNIV   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; OKT 3;

CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CYTOMEGALIC INCLUSION BODY DISEASE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOPHILIA; VIRUS INFECTION;

GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; THROMBOPHILIA; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0344132656     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/14.10.2293     Document Type: Editorial

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