Improved 24-Hour Blood Pressure Control With Sirolimus Versus Calcineurin Inhibitor Based Immunosuppression in Renal Transplant Recipients

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4184-4187

  Steigerwalt, S P ^a   Brar, N ^a   Dhungel, A ^a   Butcher, D ^a   Steigerwalt, S ^a   El Ghouroury, M ^a   Provenzano, R ^a  

^a ST JOHN HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FALLING; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CADAVER; CALCINEURIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SIROLIMUS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 71249147822     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2009.07.109     Document Type: Article

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