Do elderly patients deserve a kidney graft?

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2737-2742

  Nunes, P ^a   Mota, A ^a   Parada, B ^a   Figueiredo, A ^a   Rolo, F ^a   Bastos, C ^a   MacArio F ^a  

^a CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; BLOOD COMPATIBILITY; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; SURVIVAL;

EID: 25144459119     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2005.05.037     Document Type: Article

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