Long-term deterioration of kidney allograft function

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1405-1414

  Kasiske, Bertram L ^a   Gaston, Robert S ^b   Gourishankar, Sita ^c   Halloran, Philip F ^c   Matas, Arthur J ^a   Jeffery, John ^d   Rush, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glomerular filtration rate; Graft rejection; Graft survival; Kidney transplantation; Serum creatinine

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DETERIORATION; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CREATININE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 20544457749     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2005.00853.x     Document Type: Article

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