Role of Resistive Index Measurement in Diagnosis of Acute Rejection Episodes Following Successful Kidney Transplantation

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2805-2807

  Mehrsai, A ^a   Salem, S ^a   Ahmadi, H ^a   Baradaran, N ^a   Taherimahmoudi, M ^a   Nikoobakht, M R ^a   Rezaeidanesh, M ^a   Mansoori, D ^a   Pourmand, G ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN A; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RENAL ARTERY THROMBOSIS; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION;

ADULT; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYSTOLE; THROMBOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 70149086493     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2009.07.050     Document Type: Article

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