Estimated donor glomerular filtration rate is the most important donor characteristic predicting graft function in recipients of kidneys from live donors

Transplant International

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 64-72

  Hawley, Carmel M ^b   Kearsley, Jamie ^a   Campbell, Scott B ^b   Mudge, David W ^b   Isbel, Nicole M ^b   Johnson, David W ^b   May, Kylie ^b   Preston, John ^a   Griffin, Anthony ^b   Wall, Daryl ^b   Burke, John ^b   McTaggart, Steven J ^b   Frohloff, Gayle ^a   Nicol, David ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Glomerular filtration rate; Living donor; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; DILTIAZEM; EVEROLIMUS; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; PREDNISOLONE; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INFECTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OSTEOPENIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 33845659136     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2006.00400.x     Document Type: Article

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