Long-term results of paediatric kidney transplantation at the University of Heidelberg: A 35 year single-centre experience

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2004, Pages

  Mehrabi, Arianeb ^a   Kashfi, Arash ^a   Tönshoff, Burkhard ^a   Feneberg, Reinhard ^a   Mehls, Otto ^a   Schemmer, Peter ^a   Kraus, Thomas ^a   Wiesel, Manfred ^a   Büchler, Markus W ^a   Schmidt, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cadaveric donor; Cold ischaemia time; Immunosuppression; Living donor; Paediatric kidney transplantation; Surgical technique; Survival rate

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OKT 3; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AORTA; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; ILIAC VEIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; SEX RATIO; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4344621060     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh1046     Document Type: Article

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