Patient and Graft Survival in Older Kidney Transplant Recipients: Does Age Matter?

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1052-1060

  Fabrizii, Veronika ^a   Winkelmayer, Wolfgang C ^d   Klauser, Renate ^a   Kletzmayr, Josef ^a   Säemann, Markus D ^a   Steininger, Rudolf ^a   Kramar, Reinhard ^c   Hörl, Walter H ^a   Kovarik, Josef ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^c Third Department of Medicine   (Austria)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 1642332505     PISSN: 10466673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ASN.0000120370.35927.40     Document Type: Article

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