Technical failure of the pancreas after SPK transplant: Are these patients good candidates for later pancreas retransplant?

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 50-54

  Wang, Shen Nien ^a   Sturdevant, Mark ^b   Kandaswamy, Raja ^b   Gruessner, Rainer G W ^b   Sutherland, David E R ^b   Humar, Abhinav ^b  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

PAK; Pancreas retransplant; Technical failure

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACICLOVIR; CEFTAZIDIME; FLUCONAZOLE; GANCICLOVIR; HEPARIN; IMIPENEM; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; SULTAMICILLIN; TACROLIMUS;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOSIS; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREATITIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; REOPERATION;

EID: 38549084189     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2007.00743.x     Document Type: Article

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