Post-transplant erythrocytosis: A disappearing phenomenon?

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 800-806

  Kiberd, Bryce A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kidney transplantation complications; Outcomes; Polycythemia

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; AZATHIOPRINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; VALGANCICLOVIR; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ERYTHROCYTOSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREND STUDY; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; POLYCYTHEMIA; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYCYTHEMIA; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 71149104269     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2008.00947.x     Document Type: Article

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