Long-term outcome of adults who undergo transplantation with single pediatric kidneys: How young is too young?

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1500-1506

  Zhang, Rubin ^a   Paramesh, Anil ^a   Florman, Sandy ^a   Yau, C Lillian ^b   Balamuthusamy, Saravanan ^a   Krane, N Kevin ^a   Slakey, Douglas ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY SIZE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PROTEINURIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER STENT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INFANT; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PROTEINURIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73249142924     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.04610908     Document Type: Article

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