Determinants of graft survival in pediatric and adolescent live donor kidney transplant recipients: A single center experience

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 763-769

  El Husseini, Amr A ^a   Foda, Mohamed A ^a   Shokeir, Ahmed A ^a   Shehab El Din, Ahmed B ^a   Sobh, Mohamed A ^a   Ghoneim, Mohamed A ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Kidney transplantation; Live donor

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; HLA ANTIGEN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; DIALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENDER; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PREDICTION; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIURESIS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27944438962     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2005.00376.x     Document Type: Article

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