Renal insufficiency after liver transplantation in the MELD era compared to the pre-MELD era

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 637-642

  Feng, Zhen Zhou ^a   Tang, Jeffrey ^a   Kim, Dean Y ^b   Brown, Kimberly ^a   Abouljoud, Marwan ^b   Gordon, Stuart ^a   Yoshida, Atsushi ^b   Huang, Mary Ann ^a   Divine, George ^c   Moonka, Dilip Kumar ^a  

^a Division of Gastroenterology   (United States)

^b Department of Transplant Surgery ^*  (United States)

^c HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; Kidney liver transplant; Liver transplantation; MELD; Renal function; Sirolimus

Indexed keywords

RAPAMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70350145289     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2009.01020.x     Document Type: Article

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