Considerations in the Medical Management of Pregnancy in Transplant Recipients

Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 156-167

  Josephson, Michelle A ^a   McKay, Dianne B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

immunosuppression; pregnancy; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; DEXAMETHASONE; GENGRAFT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOGRAFT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT PLANNING; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANEMIA; COUNSELING; ERYTHROPOIETIN, RECOMBINANT; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PRECONCEPTION CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33947524617     PISSN: 15485595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ackd.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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