Age, the riddle of renal transplantation

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2307-2310

  de Fijter, Johan W ^a   Persijn, Guido G ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b EUROTRANSPLANT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age; Immunosuppression; Kidney; Outcome; Rejection; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; CADAVER DONOR; DEATH; DIALYSIS; EDITORIAL; EUROPE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIFESPAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECIPIENT; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 27644513290     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfi002     Document Type: Editorial

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