Vitamin D supplementation after renal transplantation: How much vitamin D should we prescribe?

Kidney International

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 576-578

  Levi, Ronen ^a   Silver, Justin ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLECALCIFEROL; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 23; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

AUTOCRINE EFFECT; BONE METABOLISM; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MINERAL METABOLISM; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RENAL OSTEODYSTROPHY; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN INTAKE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 61349116801     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2008.492     Document Type: Note

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