Incidence of positive C4d deposition in long-term survival cases over 10 yr after renal transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue SUPPL. 15, 2006, Pages 20-25

  Namba, Yukiomi ^a   Oka, Kazumasa ^b   Moriyama, Toshiki ^a   Kyo, Masahiro ^c   Imamura, Ryoichi ^a   Shi, Yi ^a   Ichimaru, Naotsugu ^a   Isaka, Yoshitaka ^a   Takahara, Shiro ^a   Okuyama, Akihiko ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Sakurabashi Circulatory Organ Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

C4d; Long term survival transplant gromerulopathy; Protocol biopsy

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4D; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MIZORIBINE; PARAFFIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLOMERULOPATHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEPOSITION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL TIME; TISSUE SECTION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; BIOPSY; COMPLEMENT C4; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33746446780     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2006.00545.x     Document Type: Article

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