Predicting subsequent decline in kidney allograft function from early surveillance biopsies

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2464-2472

  Cosio, Fernando G ^a   Grande, Joseph P ^a   Wadei, Hani ^a   Larson, Timothy S ^a   Griffin, Matthew D ^a   Stegall, Mark D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Kidney; Progression; Protocol biopsies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULOPATHY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; AGE; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; BIOPSY; FIBROSIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TEST; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIOPSY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOUS; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644677802     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2005.01050.x     Document Type: Article

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