The management of the failed renal allograft: An enigma with potential consequences

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 185-187

  Langone, Anthony J ^a   Chuang, Peale ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; ERYTHROPOIETIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID;

CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; DIURESIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; MORBIDITY; NEPHRECTOMY; REVIEW; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANTIBODY FORMATION; DIURESIS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ERYTHROPOIETIN, RECOMBINANT; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NEPHRECTOMY; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETREATMENT;

EID: 20544459017     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2005.18305.x     Document Type: Review

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