Severe intellectual disability does not preclude renal transplantation

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2753-2757

  Galante, Nelson Z ^a   Dib, Gustavo A ^a   Medina Pestana, José O ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

cohort studies; graft rejection; survival analysis; kidney transplantation; logistic models

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BASILIXIMAB; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYCLOSPORIN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MALE; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLICATION; CONTRAINDICATIONS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY DISEASES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954781986     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq105     Document Type: Article

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