Blood pressure profile and treatment quality in liver allograft recipients - Benefit of tacrolimus versus cyclosporine

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1512-1515

  Dikow, R ^a   Degenhard, M ^a   Kraus, T ^a   Sauer, P ^a   Schemmer, P ^a   Uhl, W ^a   Buchler M ^a   Zeier, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN A; TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIVER GRAFT; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYCLOSPORINE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVORS; TACROLIMUS;

EID: 3142570558     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2004.04.096     Document Type: Article

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