Impact of acute rejection episodes on long-term renal allograft survival

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1741-1745

  Wu, Jianyong ^a   Chen, Jianghua ^a   Wang, Yimin ^a   Zhang, Jianguo ^a   Zhu, Zong ^a   Shou, Zhangfei ^a   Wang, Suya ^a   Zhang, Ping ^a   Huang, Hongfeng ^a   He, Qiang ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Acute rejection; Kidney transplantation; Long term survival

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 10744227475     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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