Impact of Recipient Obesity on Living Donor Kidney Transplant Outcomes: A Single-Center Experience

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1421-1423

  Mehta, R ^a   Shah, G ^a   Leggat, J E ^a   Hubbell, C ^a   Roman, A M ^a   Kittur, D S ^a   Narsipur, S S ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; CYCLOSPORIN A; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34250200032     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.02.084     Document Type: Article

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