Gender-related differences of renal mass supply and metabolic demand after living donor kidney transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 163-170

  Oh, Chang Kwon ^a   Lee, Byung Mo ^a   Jeon, Kyung Ock ^b   Kim, Hyun Jung ^b   Pelletier, Shawn J ^c   Kim, Soon Il ^b   Kim, Yu Seun ^b  

^a Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Graft function; Kidney transplantation; Nephron

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; DONOR SELECTION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY MASS; KIDNEY METABOLISM; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MALE; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; NEPHRON; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STUDENT T TEST; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; BODY SURFACE AREA; CREATININE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEINURIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646061608     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2005.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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