Effect of immunosuppressive agents on long-term survival of renal transplant recipients: Focus on the cardiovascular risk

Drugs

Volumn 64, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 2047-2073

  Boots, Johannes M M ^a,b,c   Christiaans, Maarten H L ^a   Van Hooff, Johannes P ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Rijmond Zuid Medical Centre   (Netherlands)

^c Medisch Centrum Rijnmond Zuid   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BASILIXIMAB; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; DACLIZUMAB; DEXAMETHASONE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; EVEROLIMUS; FINGOLIMOD; FLUINDOSTATIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LEFLUNOMIDE; MIZORIBINE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; PLACEBO; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ANEMIA; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH ULCER; NEPHROTOXICITY; OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; REVIEW; SKIN ATROPHY; SURVIVAL; THROMBOSIS;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4644360418     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-200464180-00004     Document Type: Review

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