Kidney transplantation from pediatric donors: Size-match-based allocation

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 469-473

  Bar Dayan, Avner ^b   Bar Nathan, Nathan ^b   Shaharabani, Ezra ^b   Davidovits, Miriam ^b,c   Krause, Irit ^b,c   Kleper, Roxana ^b,c   Mor, Eytan ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Graft function; Graft survival; Kidney; Kidney transplantation; Pediatric; Pediatric kidney transplant

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIFE TABLE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RECIPIENT; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURVIVAL;

BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CREATININE; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43249092115     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2007.00836.x     Document Type: Article

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