Outcome of renal transplantation in South Asian recipients is similar to that in non-Asians

Transplantation

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1021-1024

  Loucaidou, Marina ^a   Prasad, Shilpanjali ^a   Van Tromp, Jen ^a   Cairns, Tom D H ^a   Griffith, Megan ^a   Hakim, Nadey ^a   McLean, Adam G ^a   Palmer, Andrew ^a   Papalois, Vassilios ^a   Taube, David ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Kidney transplantation; Outcomes; South Asian; Survival

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH ASIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 6344263377     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000136260.11575.CD     Document Type: Article

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