The combination of donor and recipient age is critical in determining host immunoresponsiveness and renal transplant outcome

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 252, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 662-673

  Tullius, Stefan G ^a   Tran, Huong ^a   Guleria, Indira ^a   Malek, Sayeed K ^a   Tilney, Nicholas L ^a   Milford, Edgar ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENICITY; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DONOR; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77958004592     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181f65c7d     Document Type: Article

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