Patient Mortality After Graft Failure Reduces Kidney Transplant Patient Survival Only in the Long Term: An "Intention to Treat" Analysis

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1862-1864

  Maffei, C ^a   Sandrini, S ^a   Galanopoulou, A ^a   Bossini, N ^a   Setti, G ^a   Iovinella, L ^a   Turina, S ^a   Cancarini, G ^a  

^a Transplantation Unit   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CACHEXIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CAUSE OF DEATH; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RENAL DIALYSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 48149093293     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.05.046     Document Type: Article

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