Does Donor Nephron Mass Have Any Impact on Graft Survival?

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 914-916

  Taherimahmoudi, M ^a   Mehrsai, A ^a   Nikoobakht, M ^a   Saraji, A ^a   Emamzadeh, A ^a   Pourmand, G ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY MASS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CREATININE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IRAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRONS; ORGAN SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 34248527682     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.03.084     Document Type: Article

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