Prevalence of clinical rejection after surveillance biopsies in pediatric renal transplants: Does early subclinical rejection predispose to subsequent rejection episodes?

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 823-826

  Hymes, Leonard C ^a   Warshaw, Barry L ^a   Hennigar, Randolph A ^b   Amaral, Sandra G ^a   Greenbaum, Larry A ^a  

^a Emory University School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute rejection; Allograft outcomes; Biopsy; Kidney transplant

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPLEMENT C4B; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349956579     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2009.01200.x     Document Type: Article

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