Dual kidney transplantation after liver transplantation: A good option to rescue a patient from dialysis

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 124-128

  Ekser, Burcin ^a   Furian, Lucrezia ^a   Baldan, Nicola ^a   Amico, Alessandra ^a   Fabris, Luca ^a   Lazzarin, Manuela ^a   Marchini, Francesco ^b   Rigotti, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dialysis; Dual kidney transplantation; Expanded criteria donor; Liver transplantation; Renal replacement therapy

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN A; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 63349084243     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2008.00903.x     Document Type: Article

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