Reflux nephropathy in kidney transplants, demonstrated by dimercaptosuccinic acid scanning

Transplantation

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 205-210

  Coulthard, Malcolm G ^a   Keir, Michael J ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Kidney transplant; Reflux nephropathy; Renal scarring; Urinary tract infection; Vesicoureteric reflux

Indexed keywords

SUCCIMER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY SCAR; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; REFLUX NEPHROPATHY; RENAL ARTERY THROMBOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCAR; SCHOOL CHILD; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHELATING AGENTS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUCCIMER; TECHNETIUM TC 99M DIMERCAPTOSUCCINIC ACID; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 33746455890     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000226165.06196.84     Document Type: Article

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