Clinical Implications of Proteinuria in Renal Transplant Recipients Switching to Rapamycin for Chronic Allograft Dysfunction

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2348-2350

  Gutierrez M J ^a   Gonzalez E ^a   Andres A ^a   Morales, J M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY; DIARRHEA; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EDEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCYTOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CREATININE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEINURIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIROLIMUS;

EID: 68949212921     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2009.06.163     Document Type: Article

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