Predicting renal failure after liver transplantation from measured glomerular filtration rate: Review of up to 15 years of follow-up

Transplantation

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 232-235

  Sanchez, Edmund Q ^a   Melton, Larry B ^a   Chinnakotla, Srinath ^a   Randall, Henry B ^a   McKenna, Greg J ^a   Ruiz, Richard ^a   Onaca, Nicholas ^a   Levy, Marlon F ^b   Goldstein, Robert M ^a   Klintmalm, Goran B ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Baylor All Saints Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic kidney disease; Liver transplantation; Measured GFR; Renal failure

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORINE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TACROLIMUS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 76649145126     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181c42ff9     Document Type: Article

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