Five Years of Single-Center Experience With Paired Kidney Exchange Transplantation

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1371-1375

  Lucan, M ^a  

^a Clinical Institute of Urology   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 34250170766     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.02.081     Document Type: Article

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