Renal transplantation in high cardiovascular risk patients

Transplantation Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 224-234

  Bittar, Julio ^a,b   Arenas, Paula ^a,b   Chiurchiu, Carlos ^a,b   de la Fuente, Jorge ^a,b   de Arteaga, Javier ^a,b   Douthat, Walter ^a,b   Massari, Pablo U ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL PRIVADO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; ELDERLY CARE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 70349163981     PISSN: 0955470X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trre.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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