Laparoscopic procurement of single versus multiple artery kidney allografts: Is long-term graft survival affected?

Transplantation

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1203-1207

  Paramesh, Anil ^a   Zhang, Rubin ^a   Florman, Sandy ^a   Yau, C Lillian ^b   McGee, Jennifer ^a   Al Abbas, Haythem ^a   Amatya, Arun ^a   Killackey, Mary ^a   Slakey, Douglas ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Graft survival.; Kidney transplant; Laparoscopic nephrectomy; Living donor; Multiple arteries

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL TIME; URETER DISEASE;

ADULT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; RENAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73849106027     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181ba343a     Document Type: Article

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