A critical look at the immunologically favorable adult-sized kidney transplant in small children: Editorial

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 265-267

  Salvatierra, Oscar ^a   Concepcion, Waldo ^a   Sarwal, Minnie ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; BODY SURFACE; EDITORIAL; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY SIZE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NEPHRECTOMY;

ADULT; CHILD; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN SIZE; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 64149108809     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2008.01064.x     Document Type: Editorial

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