Is anemia a predictor for mortality and loss of graft function in kidney transplant recipients?

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 731-732

  Weir, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ANEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ANEMIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947575300     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2007.01764.x     Document Type: Editorial

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