One-year serum albumin is an independent predictor of outcomes in kidney transplant recipients

Journal of Renal Nutrition

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 392-397

  Dahlberg, Rebecca ^a   Muth, Brenda ^a   Samaniego, Milagros ^b   Hofmann, R Michael ^a   Pirsch, John ^a   Djamali, Arjang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CREATININE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CREATININE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SERUM ALBUMIN; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957953398     PISSN: 10512276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jrn.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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