Plasmapheresis in the treatment of early acute kidney allograft dysfunction

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 506-509

  Nafar, Mohsen ^a   Farrokhi, Farhat ^b   Hemati, Keyvan ^b   Pour Reza Gholi, Fatemeh ^a   Firoozan, Ahmad ^a   Einollahi, Behzad ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Allograft rejection; Humoral rejection; Kidney transplantation; Plasmapheresis; Serum creatinine level

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IRAN; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALVAGE THERAPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THERAPY RESISTANCE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ACUTE DISEASE; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT REJECTION; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMAPHERESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847764577     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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