Sirolimus therapy in orthotopic liver transplant recipients with calcineurin inhibitor related chronic renal insufficiency

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 3029-3031

  Neff, G W ^a,b   Montalbano, M ^a   Slapak Green, G ^a   Meyer, D ^a   Berney, T ^a   Safdar, K ^a   Schiff, E R ^a   Tzakis, A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b Highland Professional Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CREATININE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER GRAFT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEPHROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW;

EID: 0346500880     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2003.10.002     Document Type: Article

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