Surveillance renal transplant biopsies and subclinical rejection at three months post-transplant in pediatric recipients

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 536-539

  Hymes, Leonard C ^a   Greenbaum, Laurence ^a   Amaral, Sandra G ^a   Warshaw, Barry L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute rejection; BK virus; Renal transplant biopsy

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; CREATININE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VALGANCICLOVIR;

AGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAINTENANCE DRUG DOSE; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; RACE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; VIREMIA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BIOPSY; CHILD; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GEORGIA; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MITOMYCIN; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMUSTINE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 34447299729     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2007.00705.x     Document Type: Article

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