Steroid preservation: The rationale for continued prescribing

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 305-307

  Marks, Stephen D ^a   Trompeter, Richard S ^a  

^a Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid; Immunosuppression; Infection; PTLD; Rejection; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BASILIXIMAB; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYCLOSPORIN; DACLIZUMAB; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; RAPAMYCIN; RECOMBINANT GROWTH HORMONE; STEROID; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; TSUKUBAENOLIDE;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; EDITORIAL; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MYCOSIS; PEDIATRICS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHILD; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS;

EID: 33244476299     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-005-2155-7     Document Type: Editorial

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