Steroid withdrawal after long-term medication for immunosuppressive therapy in renal transplant patients: Adrenal response and clinical implications

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2615-2621

  Miozzari, Marco ^a   Ambühl, Patrice M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adrenal glands; Adrenocortical function; Prednisone therapy; Renal graft function; Steroid withdrawal; Steroids

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; HYDROCORTISONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TETRACOSACTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; COHORT STUDIES; COSYNTROPIN; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FASTING; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISONE; RENAL CIRCULATION;

EID: 5444269157     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh421     Document Type: Article

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